The History of ATMs
Speaking of ubiquitous, Fortune magazine's website has a
History of Automatic Teller Machines:
Chemical Bank's ad campaign announced the start of the revolution in 1969: "On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!" On that day at the Rockville Centre branch at 10 North Village Avenue on Long Island, customers who possessed plastic cards with magnetic stripes no longer had to wait in line for a teller to cash their checks. They could access their money 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through a machine built into a wall on the street
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Posted by johndan at July 24, 2004 11:30 AM
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