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The Development of Cash-Dispensing Technology in the UK
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 33, Number 3, July-September 2011
- pp. 32-45
- Article
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The success of currency dispensers in the 1960s was the technological precondition for the now omnipresent automated teller machines (ATMs). An examination of the three earliest separate instances of cash-dispensing technology not only illuminates the history of this device but demonstrates how users—in this case banks—shape and direct technological change.