[LINK] 40th Birthday of the ATM

[steve jenkin]

NY Times 'Lede' Blog - iPhone released around ATM's 40th Birthday.
<http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/drop-that-iphone-and-wish-an-atm-happy-birthday/>

NYTimes article
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-ATM-Anniversary.html>

CNN - Don Wetzel & Docutel. [Long]
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/26/377172/index.htm>

BBC
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6230194.stm>
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ATMs Celebrate 40th Birthday
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 27, 2007

LONDON (AP) -- ATMs around the world were handing out an estimated $26
billion Wednesday, business as usual for machines celebrating 40 years
of doling out cash on street corners, inside fast food eateries, at
convenience stores, airports and myriad other locations.

Although cash machines have a long pedigree -- one version was set up in
New York in 1939 -- the first recognizably modern one was placed outside
the Barclays PLC branch in Enfield, a north London suburb, on June 27, 1967.

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By the end of the 1960s, there were 781 automatic teller machines across
the world, most of them in Britain, Barclays said.

Before long, the machines were linked by a series of bank networks,
enabling customers of one bank to withdraw money from another bank's
ATM. The machines are now used to remotely access bank statements, make
transfers and even recharge cell phone credits.

There are some 1.5 million ATMs across the globe -- about 400,000 of
them in the United States -- according to the ATM Industry Association.
They see an estimated 165 million withdrawals daily, according to Retail
Banking Research.

One of the most remote is at the McMurdo station at the South Pole,
where it serves a small population of Antarctic researchers.

-- 
Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
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