Burying the Coyote

Stuart Karle is right that the Coyote terminal, System/55 and System/77 have done Reuters proud for far longer than any of us expected at the start, but it’s not quite since the 1970s [Reuters prepares to bury Coyote]. After a long period of checking and testing, we did not really get into it until 1982 and it was some time after that before Reuters’ first systems were up and running. I suggest a working Coyote, a copy of the user manual and an explanatory historical sign be presented to the print museum in Bride Lane, near where the Reuter Society meets. ■