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Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by chadash on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:50AM (#23905827)
I should have specified that you need a shipping address for the ubiquitous keyboard
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Re:Why it’s hard to kill the Bloomberg terminal (2019) by MagnumOpus on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:58AM (#23916412)
For an experienced user the keyboard is superfluous and only useful because it has an integrated fingerprint reader for the 2FA - so you don't have to faff around with their flaky "b-unit" hardware token.

(But yes, you at least need a b-unit to get started.)

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