Can Your ATM Play Beethoven?

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 20, 2004 @11:38PM from the you-have-nothing-to-fear dept.

bpiltz writes "A funk band in Harrisonburg, VA, called Midnight Spaghetti, has posted a story with photos about a newly installed Diebold Opteva 520 ATM at Carnegie Mellon University that crashed, then rebooted. The Windows XP operating system initialized without the actual ATM software. The result was a public desktop computer, with only a touch screen interface, left wide open for the amusement of the students at the most wired university in the U.S. Interestingly, Diebold is one of the leading manufacturers of e-voting machines."

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Don't blame Windows! by callipygian-showsyst · 2004-03-21 06:51 · Score: 1, Troll

Blame cheap chinese H1-B programmers and outsourced Indians who don't have the experience or motivation to do things right. Instead, they build prototype quality software on Windows (because they have no experience with real-time operating systems and embedded programming) and that's what gets shipped.
You can also place some blame on the bank exexutives who sign off on such shitty software.

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