ATMs back then? I don’t remember hearing about them back then. I don’t remember eve seeing a person use one until the 90s. And I remember some people called them MAC machines.
I remember the Eagles’ Bill Bergey doing commercials, saying “tap MAC, for a little cash.”
Oh they definitely had them, at least in big cities. I remember because I was constantly using them, and consequently never saved any money. Finally I got smart and cut up my card, getting a hundred dollars from each paycheck from the teller and forcing myself to live on that for two weeks.
Here they were “Tyme machines”. Tyme didnt last very long but to this day when someone here needs cash you will hear them say “run to the time machine.”
My first experience with an ATM was in ‘83 or ‘84 and, as near as I can remember, they were always called ATMs.
I remember going there on a Saturday morning to pull $40 out at an Oceanside, CA branch. It seemed like something right out of the future. I always had this fear that it would malfunction and not spit out the money, but debit my account anyway as if it did. That never happened. But it was still many years before I trusted putting money INTO an ATM machine.