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To: softengine
Banks are dinosaurs. They're using old-fashioned tape technology and plain-text. I'm surprised the headline wasn't "Bank loses deck of punch cards".
10 posted on 06/08/2005 2:31:09 PM PDT by FreedomAvatar (Gravity is only a theory - Teach the controversy)
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To: FreedomAvatar
Banks are dinosaurs.

I got a friend in Mississippi who repairs and fixes bank teller machines. He said the ones he works on use OS/2 Warp.

13 posted on 06/08/2005 2:33:16 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
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To: FreedomAvatar

Commercial software is very conservative. That is, prehistoric. Same in the medical industry. ASCII screens, still. It must have something to do with the nature of the customer.


31 posted on 06/08/2005 3:09:35 PM PDT by RightWhale
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