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by cwyers 3671 days ago
I agree it's not a growth market, but there's a lot of OS/2 in places you wouldn't expect, like ATMs and point of sale systems, if you keep the price low enough you can avoid increasing the pressure to upgrade, and you can make a comfortable income for a while.
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Zardoz84 3670 days ago
This explain why Santander's ATMs (4B ATM) have the same UI since 90's and can't send an email instead of printing on paper when you do some operation on it.
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justinclift 3670 days ago
As a general thought, hooking up ATM machines to the general internet sounds like it would be a source of "fun" for years to come.

For your point though, most probably it wouldn't be the ATM that does it. The ATM would send/queue a notification to some other resource in the bank network, for that to do the whole email notification piece. But that should be possible today (or even years ago).

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eru 3668 days ago
> The ATM would send/queue a notification to some other resource in the bank network, for that to do the whole email notification piece.

Reminds me of those people using `resource' as a synonym for `warm body'..

(You are absolutely right in your intended meaning, though.)

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