The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > It's an interesting bit of history that the first Tandem machine wasn't > available until 1976, well after the first electronic ATM (1967) and lots > of other ATMs. From what I've read the first networked ATM appeared in > 1968, and the first "popular" ATM (i.e. same model placed into service by > more than one bank) was the IBM 2984 starting in 1973. The IBM 2984 > offered variable cash withdrawals and instantly deducted from your account, > so it was 100% on-line -- 34 years ago. (I remember my father using our > local bank's first ATM, newly installed, when I was a young child. It > seemed like magic.) Presumably most if not all of these ATMs connected to > IBM System/360s and /370s. Tandem came along after almost a decade of > ATMs. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#6 ATMs early work was done at los gatos lab ... before i was spending any time there. however, i do remember people talking about having worked on the development. they had large supply of bills from numerous different countries ... which they kept in a locked vault in the basement (for testing with the machines during development). they also mentioned story about one of the early machines going in across the street from a fast food resturant and kids feeding condiment packets into the card slot (one of the early bug fixes was countermeasure for such an attack). old posts reference 2984 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#5 Materiel and graft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#40 New attacks on the financial PIN processing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#9 Plurals and language confusion http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#47 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
