JUAN BARRIOS

EDWARD BRICEÑO

DIANGEL MATA

INGLES

In the 60's there were major inventions that gave life to ATMs that are present in almost everyone. Here we have the beginning of its history.


The chocolates are the "fault" of today there ATMs. At least that life recounted in British inventor John Shepherd-Barron (died May 2010), who explained that to get to the idea of ​​a money dispenser, departed from the concept of a machine delivering chocolates in exchange for a coin but instead of the confectionery, if bills delivered.

The problem is that at the time of his departure, there were still no magnetic cards to identify customers, so the first ATMs only gave money for the customer to insert a check of their own. The most that could turn were 10 pounds (just under 10 thousand dollars at current exchange rates). To identify the check belonged to the customer, each of them had a chemical that identified him (even was a slightly radioactive chemical) and the customer must enter a PIN (ie a PIN) to ensure identity. that was four numbers instead of six because, according to his wife Caroline, was all I could remember at once. "On the kitchen table, he said he could only remember four-digit and four-digit became world standard because of it," says Shepherd-Barron.


His invention was received by the bank Barclay's who put him to work in a village near London on June 27, 1967, with mixed success. Only the appearance of magnetic stripe cards to make them operational in the beginning of the decade of the 70's did masificarlos completed in early 2010, more than 1.7 million worldwide.