# Defunct ATM/cash machine networks (remember Green Machine?)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defunct-atm-cash-machine-networks-remember-green-machine/827752 "2019-01-14T19:20:20Z")\
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I don’t remember the names for early ATMs. I’m not sure when I started using them. I distinctly remember writing checks to “cash” at AAFES to get money from my account while in Georgia, and probably in Germany too. I think by time I moved to Texas, I must have received an ATM card. So, probably, the mid-1990s. They’ve never been anything except “ATM” to me.

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defunct-atm-cash-machine-networks-remember-green-machine/827752/22 "2019-01-19T12:53:27Z")

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In the late 70’s our local ATMs were called Handybank and Banker24, then MAC in the 80’s (money access center). I still sometimes refer to ATMs as MAC machines.

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