Banker Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Some of us superannuated old fogeys still call them " Cashpoints"…And if you're even older they are "cash dispensers". Remember the Barclays./.Midland Bank machines that dispensed a fixed amount of £10?. Bloomin heck - I'm going back a long time now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InigoMontoya Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 And if you're even older they are "cash dispensers". Remember the Barclays./.Midland Bank machines that dispensed a fixed amount of £10?. Bloomin heck - I'm going back a long time now.... More random facts about cash dispensers. [Thanks to Google, and Wikipedia most people now know most of these] 1. When the first "cash dispenser" was being developed, the bloke making it asked his wife to try the prototype which used six digits. She usually could only remember four accurately and consistently, and so four digits tended to get used. [Evidence suggested when it was trialled she was not alone, and four digits was at the limit of "easily" remembered] 2. The first person to use a cash dispenser in the UK was Reg Varney* 3. When you used to get the £10 from the "cash dispenser", to stop people making a cardboard facsimile of the punched card token, it was radioactive, and the sensors in the machine had a geiger counter in them. [it was estimated you'd have to consume over a ton of these things to be subject to a lethal dose, so was considered an acceptable risk] * He probably wasn't - it would have been tested beforehand, and, as neither he nor anyone else would know what one was, there was almost certainly a bank employee behind the keyboard pushing the 10x£1 notes back for him to brandish in the photocall - http://www.finextra.com/finextra-images/visible_pictures/487FD178-8D5E-4B0E-BC84-1C8615774389.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsunder Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 You need a spam filter on your email. It came from a friend. Is it my friend who is the spam or the message she sent? Who or what gets filtered out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 It came from a friend. Is it my friend who is the spam or the message she sent? Who or what gets filtered out? A number of factors are used but the over riding one is the content of the message. If you are ever unsure about an email like this, simply Google the first line. In this instance "If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM" resulted in the following 1st hit: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/reverse-pin-ATM.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotty dog Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 fake. Think about it. What if your PIN was, for example, 1221. The machine would never know if you were entering it forwards or backwards. Well done!never thought of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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