31 Oct
1998
31 Oct
'98
11:50 a.m.
Okay, curiosity time. What happens to obselete ATMs?
Anyone here collect them?
Due to security concerns - after all, you don't want anybody getting
their hands on those little printing presses inside that make $20's -
all ATM's are destroyed upon decomissioning :-).
More seriously, the things are probably melted down for scrap. The
ATM's that I've seen being serviced probably weigh as much as a
small car.
Many recent ATM's have PC-clone hardware in their "smarts". I've
seen several different ones in the process of "rebooting" and
displaying the OS/2 startup screen. I've seen out-of-commision
ATM's show the "General failure reading drive C:" message, as
well.
Tim "Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my drive C?" Shoppa