why do people say ATM machine when ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine?
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same reason as people say PIN number basically I don't think we have been using acronyms for long enough yet to use them correctly.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_teller_machine\n\n\nThe world's first ATM was developed by De La Rue and installed in Enfield Town in North London on June 27, 1967 by Barclays Bank. This instance of the invention is credited to John Shepherd-Barron, although Luther George Simjian registered patents in New York, USA in the 1930s and Donald Wetzel and two other engineers from Docutel registered a patent on June 4, 1973. Shepherd-Barron was awarded an OBE in the 2005 New Year's Honours.
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Several expressions come from goverment organizations such as military, police, etc... that have to code everything for added complexity.  Just the way a 187 is the code for a murder in law enforcement.  There are many others that leak out into public, first through family members that have had to endure these coded expressions at home, then through friends socializing with out of the office buddies!  There are also codes like these used in everyday businesses.  saying " I need a 52" in certain stores means that you need someone with a mop!\n\nThere is also the old time phrases that have been modified as time goes on such as from the gold miners after the 1949 gold rush... known as the 49ers...Of course you can't forget the rating scales on the club scene... By the way I am a 10!!! plus or minus a few...\n\nHope this helps!
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In Texas A&M it stands for "Agricultural and Mining."  Not mechanical, some schools have different meanings though.  This is why they are called the Aggies...Agricultural.
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It is probably because the machines are standardized and the same keypads are used for the walk up ATM machines. \n\nHowever, I have noticed that the McDonald's drive thru has a sign saying Braille menu is available.
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Rapid cash, faster service.\n\nAutomated cash - great service compounded daily.\n\nReliable cash, reliable service - you just know its there.\n\nQuick cash, quicker service - no worries.\n\nOR\n\nQuick cash, relaible service - no worries.\n\nEasy cash, easy service - every time.
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ATM was a networking standard developed in the early 1990's for handling voice traffic with fixed sized packets rather than Ethernet variable packet sizes or traditional circuit switching used by the SS7 voice network.  \n\nIt has had some deployments in the telecommuncations space but it did not become the dominant technology.  It is complex and expensive. Most major carriers deployed it to carry services just as they did with Frame Relay.  It remains in networks today but will be phased out eventually in favor of IP based services
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In Lithuanian we have a word for "control" ("kontroliuoti") which has the same indoeuropean origin and the English version. It is often used as in "check" - like passport control, like you said. We also have an original Lithuanian word ("valdyti"), which is more often used in terms of managing something (like in your example - remote control, self-control, control panel). It also has a softer and not so strict connotation as the first word. Quite often, however, we use these words interchangeably (they are synonims in their essence).
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Old pre-computer cash registers had an X key and a Z key (actual physical keys that made the machine do a subtotal, and a complete sum total, respectively, when you inserted them and turned them in the cash register).  If you used the X key, you could get the machine to tell you how much sales you'd rung up since you opened for business that day.  At the end of the day, you'd "X out" (run a subtotal using the X key) and then "Z out" (run a grand total on the day's business and zero out the machine using the Z key, so it was ready to go for the next morning).\n\nIt seems the terminology has stayed with us, even though cash registers are a lot more advanced now than they were 25 years ago.  It's probably all done with software now, but the bartender still needs to zero out at the end of the night.
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It probably just made more sense to describe the amount and then the currency.  I see some written descriptions outside the US use the currency symbol afterward, like 637$.  Maybe we should all start doing it...:-)
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sometimes, you can be legally blind, but able to see a small bit... so maybe they can double check... \n\nPlus, blind people may be in the passenger seat, and reaching over... or in the back seat...\n\nAnd, most likely, all ATM buttons are made the same way, because it would make economic sense to have only one mold for the numbers in the ATM factory.  :)
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Bank of America?  America is usually capitalized, being the name of a continent.
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One theory asserts that the DR and CR come from the Latin past participles of debitum and creditum which are "debere" and "credere", respectively. Another theory is that DR stands for "debit record" and CR stands for "credit record". Finally, some believe the DR notation is short for "debtor" and CR is short for "creditor".
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I read somewhere (and I'm sorry I don't remember the source) that the reason is that it is more cost effective...  the ATM manufacturer makes all the buttons with braille for those who need the braille, but making a separate run of buttons without braille just for the drive-through machines would cost extra (plus have the additional logistical hurdle of figuring out which machines are drive through and which aren't) and have no additional benefit (except, perhaps, not looking stupid when people access the drive-through machines).
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A bank teller is a person who works behind the counter in a bank, serving customers. An old meaning of "tell" was "count," and tellers count money.
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ATM, is the protocol used on the WAN.  There's other WAN protocols out there.  Frame Relay (older protocol) and now with GigE available, it's slowly replacing ATM.
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ABA is the bank's number.\nIts the automated banking Access number.\n\nIts an identifier so you know which bank and branch you are dealing with.