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My uncle was part of the team in Bank of America implementing new ATM software at the time they moved to somewhat customizing the interface so it had a quick bu
by seanhunter 8mo ago
My uncle was part of the team in Bank of America implementing new ATM software at the time they moved to somewhat customizing the interface so it had a quick button on the first menu to give you your favourite withdrawal amount quickly, let you choose what notes you wanted etc. He said it was written in java and his favourite bit was writing the method that would be called (after all checks were done to make sure you had the money etc) to issue the cash. It was called “dispenseWithoutQuestion()”.
You could call dispenseWithoutQuestion(someamount) and the device would spit that amount of cash out so it was obviously tremendously pleasing to test.
- neuroelectron 8mo agoWhy would this be tremendously pleasing to test?
- Stratoscope 8mo agoYou get money! Of course you don't get to keep the money, but it is yours for a moment, even if just to count it. And beyond that, you get to see your code operate a physical machine that you can touch. How many of us get to do that?
- pwdisswordfishy 8mo agoWouldn't that be Monopoly money anyway?
- qup 8mo agoDoubt it, the bill reader checks all the bills before dispensing, so it would be bypassed for monopoly money. Maybe they used $1s or something.
- kotaKat 8mo agoNah, they get 'test money' to load into the dispensers, and it's something banks will also buy for things like ATM demonstrators. https://shop.dieboldnixdorf.com/atm-demonstration-currency/product/0005077800-DLR https://shop.dieboldnixdorf.com/atm-demonstration-currency/p... (We haven't really had "ATM demonstrations" in a long time specifically, but there was a bit of time in the early adoption era to get a fake card into a customer's hand and let them play with a demonstration machine in your lobby or in an office to get to see how convenient it was to get the play money out. See also the tabletop demonstrator Triton built, the ATM Jr - https://triton.com/about-triton/innovative-history/ https://triton.com/about-triton/innovative-history/)
- seanhunter 8mo agoYeah exactly. The test lab had an ATM which you call the function and it spits out money (that you don’t get to keep, but still).
- amluto 8mo agoI hope it returned how much it dispensed so that a dispenser failure would result in a refund.