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A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

395 points · 171 comments · rbanffy

  1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
    I have the highest regard for these terse, but information-dense displays that enable humans to quickly grasp all information they need to do their jobs, and nothing more. This is also something avionics provide - a modern cockpit displays are a work of art in layering needed information for what is happening at the time, both the dense PFD and the much specific that communicate aircraft status.
    1. ACS_Solver · · focus · HN ↗
      I love displays from space vehicles and nuclear plants for the same reason. Data and controls organized in a dense but presumably highly usable manner. And it covers the more specific view of an expert in a particular subsystem, as well as the higher level view of those responsible for the whole system.
      1. BlackRabbit1 · · focus · HN ↗
        I love NASA design of their space probe telemetry/control views.. lol.

        It's so pure.

        1. rbanffy · · focus · HN ↗
          I remember seeing glances of the Mission Control screens during the Apollo and early shuttle program - two screens and two channel selectors where the programming would be a screenful of real-time data rendered in the adjacent RTCC (real time compute center, or something like that) and captured by slow-scan CCTV cameras and piped to the consoles as TV signals.
      2. jll29 · · focus · HN ↗
        Also on the input side: for instance here is a cheat sheet for a small part of the available keyboard commands: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbk.ac.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;bloomberg-cheatsheet.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbk.ac.uk&#x2F;documents&#x2F;bloomberg-cheatsheet.pdf
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