Automated Teller Machines
Electromechanical cash dispensers and later online terminals for automated cash withdrawal and account services outside staffed branches.
Core metadata
- ID: automated_teller_machines
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1967 (exact)
- Region: United Kingdom and later global banking networks
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Computers (Mainframe/Early) (computers_early)
- Database Management Systems (database_management_systems)
Dependents
- None.
Fields
Field lanes
- Finance & Markets: Banking & Credit
Node sources
- Emergence and Evolution of Proprietary ATM Networks in the UK, 1967-2000 (Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2007, review) • Supports: node, maturity
- First cash dispenser (Guinness World Records, 1967, generic_overview) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 74%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 1
- review: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computers (Mainframe/Early) (computers_early) | enabling | 78% | review | ATM networks emerged as banks adopted online, real-time computing across branch networks; computing enabled networked ATM operation, while the first cash dispensers were not relational database terminals. |
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| Database Management Systems (database_management_systems) | enabling | 70% | expert_inference | ATMs require persistent account and transaction data infrastructure, but the first cash dispensers predate relational DBMS. |
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