I lived in Italy in the '80s and '90s. Italy was slower to adopt a lot of technological advances. But the SOES bandits were fun, back in the day.
Perhaps this is relevant to the original question:
At the end of each day, this same system [Quotron in the early '60s] transmitted stock market pages to United Press International, which in turn sold them to its newspaper customers all over the world.
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