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RE: OT - Just seen inside a Woolwich ATM machine


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  • Subject: RE: OT - Just seen inside a Woolwich ATM machine
  • From: "Rob Mouser" <rmouser@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:01:33 +0100
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I spent 8 years working for a major high street bank. OS/2 was widely
used. We used to have great fun with cash point machines but I cant say
what as it was a bit cruel really.

Many thanks

Rob Mouser




-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard McGovern [mailto:stuff@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 July 2003 17:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - Just seen inside a Woolwich ATM machine

> I know its off-topic, but I found it interesting.
>
> Standing in Woolwich while an engineer was working inside
> machine - he re-booted it, and it said OS-WARP !!
>
> Is this still a current operating system ? - I thought it
> died years ago. Last time I saw this was when I was messing
> with things like Win3.1, Dosshell etc.

A lot of banks went with OS/2 because a) IBM sold it and b) it was
billed as
being very secure.

G



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