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Quotron

American financial data technology company

Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape. The Quotron offered brokers and money managers up-to-the-minute prices and other information about securities. The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by entrepreneur John Scantlin.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Quotron II desk unit
Photo: Quotron.jpg : MontyPh ( talk ) 17:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC). The original uploader was MontyPh at English Wikipedia . derivative work: Minderbinder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Quotron was a Los Angeles–based company that in 1960 became the first financial data technology company to deliver stock market quotes to an electronic screen rather than on a printed ticker tape. The Quotron offered brokers and money managers up-to-the-minute prices and other information about securities. The Quotron was developed by Scantlin Electronics, owned by entrepreneur John Scantlin. Scantlin had earlier developed a quotation device that used magnetic tape instead of ticker tape. Quotron's first major competitor was Telerate, which was founded by Neil Hirsch in 1969 and later bought by Dow Jones in 1990.2

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