Automated Teller Machines

Electromechanical cash dispensers and later online terminals for automated cash withdrawal and account services outside staffed branches.

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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.
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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