First recorded in 1970–75
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But the biggest obstacle is that home computers have no way to produce hard cash, so they fail to eliminate a customer's periodic trek to the bank or automated-teller machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prototype unit looks like an automated-teller machine, but it issues information rather than cash.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, in short, one of the great conveniences of modern technology: the ATM, or automated-teller machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last winter another nearby bank installed an automated-teller machine, but Smith notes that it is hardly ever used.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's no mistaking an automated-teller machine for a bank teller.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only financial innovation of recent decades that really improved Americans’ lives, Mr. Volcker once said, was the automated teller machine.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
Mr. Maselli said he once had neon signs in the window and an automated teller machine inside, which he removed at the landlord’s request.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2014
In Boston, Kyle Powers and Chris Yim, co-founders of Liberty Teller, a company that operates a bitcoin automated teller machine, were helping customers and answering questions at their kiosk in South Station on Tuesday.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2014
The bank told customers they could visit a branch or an automated teller machine instead of conducting business online.
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2011
On a recent trip to Louisiana for her family reunion she watched every nickel and checked her balance at the automated teller machine several times a day.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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