If you're having any problems, or want to suggest some improvements, please post below!

Level2 changes
In the last few weeks we've needed to implement some code changes to make us compliant with the LSE's rules on the access of Level2 data.

The following requirement is now in place:
You can only use 1 program on 1 computer to access Level2 on MoneyAM using a single username.

This means that you are able to view as many Level2 windows using any one particular browser, or program, that you wish, however you will not be able to use both Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time (the same goes for using Quote Tracker or TradeSeeker at the same time as viewing it using a web browser)

If you find you're being logged off of MoneyAM's Level2 with the message 'you've logged on from another location' then check the above and make sure you're not running any other programs at the same time before reporting this as a bug.

qwento, thank goodness it's not only me. (win 98 ie5)

Me too
Keith

Felix - Re: Sun's Java. Superb!

On the home page there are small charts on the right hand side. The US ones have, in theory, dow, nas and s&p. However, whichever one you click on, the actual chart remains that of the nas :-(

dcb

Thanks for all the feedback, folks, it's really invaluable.

FWIW, IST has been a technology partner of Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW)since the mid 80's and has been contracted by them to develop various chunks of software - they even resell one of our software tools as their own. We've worked with them on Java since 1995 so we know a bit about it. However, that simply gives us the inside straight and the ability to fix things, but only *you* can tell us what's wrong.

So keep those letters and postcards coming, and we'll do our level best.

Thanks for all the help, it's immensely exciting to see all the effort and goodwill going into making this the premier financial web site.

Derek (IST and MoneyAM)
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Derek,

Why are you called Mighty Micro?

Cheers

Ash

MM,

the intra-day chart on the quote page has no previous day's close (still)

Someone may have already commented on this, but here goes anyway. The indu intraday chart seems to run on a GMT timeframe .......... flatlining from 8am till 2.30pm and finishing at 4.30pm.

Derek;You did that without slurring your words. Must have been a short staff Xmas lunch:-)

regards

M

Ash,

Hi, good to see you here (I can carry on the argument I was having with you "over the road" :) [Edited to remove "can can" 'cos I look naff in stockings.]

The nickname comes from the book "The Mighty Micro" written in 1979 by Dr Christopher Evans (who sadly died of cancer in his 40s) and was also made into a splendid 6-part BBC2 series at the time.

This was an imagination capturing event for me, working as I was at the time for ICL, the UK mainframe computer manufacturer. The net result was that I went to Silicon Valley and the Pacific North-West of the States (Seattle, Portland and the California Valley towns of Palo Alto, Mt View, Santa Clara, San Jose and so on), met people like Bill Gates (you know who he is) and Al Shugart (inventor of the floopy disk) and helped ICL lurch into the PC and networking business.

I adopted the nickname "MightyMicro" as a tribute to Chris Evans who opened my eyes to a revolution and fired my imagination.

And now I run IST, based in Reading and in Palo Alto, CA. And I also know Bullshare, which is worth an entire chapter in my forthcoming book as well!

Cheers

Derek (IST and MoneyAM)

Very intersting MM. I had much the same start myself with one of the first purchases in the UK of a commodore pet and an apple II. Both around ?1500 each at the time with 4k memory and black and white video output.
When asked at the time WHY? I jokingly said nearly every home in the UK would have one in the future and much to my surprise its nearly come true.
Problem is with that early start I should have been a multi millionaire by now!
D,

MM: I presume the book will be a one page leaflet then

Rodney/Croc: So now I know why you were so keen we powered the site using the latest spec. Commodore Pets bought from you.



Delboy:-)

Croc:

I bumped into Steve Wozniak in Fry's Electronics store in Palo Alto about two years ago. He had a trolley full of Apple Mac software. I said to him "hey Woz, why do you have to come here and buy this stuff? Why don't you get it for free?" He said it was easier to buy it than to argue with Apple Computer's hierarchy. *Sigh*

Derek
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MM, It is now a much sought after antique item for interior decor at around 500 pounds each!

Anyway M if its good enough as an ADVFN server you could consider et ;-)

Yes, all data is viewed on a 8am-4.45pm timeframe, as chart engine currently simplistically assumes all instruments are on the UK markets. This is why you get a mostly flat graph for INDU etc. Likely to change in medium term. See Charts Beta thread.

Also I'm thinking of consolidating all the chart Q&As, enhancements etc into an online viewable FAQ, but for now the Charts Beta thread will have to do duty,
F

PS Was raised on a Commodore Pet exactly like the above, circa 1982. I still remember struggling to fill up its vast memory expanses of 4K, and wondering who on earth would ever need all that space.

felix; do you fancy another Commodore as a development machine, look good value to me:-0)

Croc: How splendid. In Fry's store in Sunnyvale (a mammoth place) they have a bunch of historical exhibits including the original Apple 1 breadboard. I have a digipic somewhere, I'll find it and post sometime.

MM

Have sometimes thought about buying one, but I know it would instantly become a white elephant, as has already happened with the Apple iMac I bought last year... It's more sensible to do retrocomputing in software (download an app that makes your PC pretend to be a Pet)
F

Felix - Any chance of using the alt="image description" in the img tag please? Thank you :)

This is a real computer. Leo III around 1965. 24k of memory and it could mutiprogram up to 13 programs at once. Just paper tape, not even puched cards input. No disk drives (not invented yet). No console screen, just teletype output and no input.