other trivia: A Brief History of the ATM http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/a-brief-history-of-the-atm/388547/
The company seemed poised to overwhelm its competitors until executives decided to deploy a new model "the IBM 4732 family" which were incompatible with previous models, including the already-successful and widely deployed IBM 3624. ... IBM's move soured banks, inadvertently, opening the ATM market to new cashpoint manufacturers. Eventually, IBM abandoned payment-technology systems entirely. ... IBM's returns fell short of its expectations, in part due to the growth in local processing architectures, which had invalidated IBM's strategy to link ATMs to its expensive mainframes. ... snip ... There are articles about OS/2 lingering on in ATM market long after it had disappeared elsewhere The ticking time bomb inside your bank ATM http://www.fiercefinanceit.com/story/ticking-time-bomb-inside-your-bank-atm/2013-07-31 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
