Oldest ATM card in circulation

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GeneralZod

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I've got a still working AIB Banklink ATM card from 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down.

Can anyone beat that?
 
Any idea why they never replaced your card? Is it ATM only or combined (e.g. cheque guarantee, Laser - presumably not since it predates it - Cirrus/Plus+/Maestro etc.)
 
It's an ATM only card for a "cashsave" account with a tragically low interest rate.

All my other cards are replaced every two years but this one soldiers on.
 
Hi GeneralZod, I have one from 1994! not as good as yours but it's also AIB, started life as a student account, moved to cashsave and is now current! 12 years later still going strong. In fact a friend of mine has an even older one, it's got the blue and white stripes which AIB had before they changed their colours!
 
apologies general. dyslexia. (causes me to lose money with the bookies. i keep getting the winning bet mixed up.)
 
shoegal said:
In fact a friend of mine has an even older one, it's got the blue and white stripes which AIB had before they changed their colours!
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That's the one I've got. The colour scheme is eye popping.
 
Did some googling and got a lot of hits.

[broken link removed] claims to have been the first to introduce ATMs to Ireland, with 4 in O'Connell Street in 1968.
This does not appear to be a true ATM as we know it today.

Bank of Ireland's [broken link removed] says they introduced the first PASS machine in 1980.

AIB don't seem to have a history on-line.

The first true ATM with magnetic strip, PIN and functionality appears to have been introduced in New York in 1971.
Here's another [broken link removed] from the summer 2000 issue of Invention and Technology magazine.
 
Jaysus - are we anoraks or wha'? :D Anyway, this Wikipedia article on ATMs includes a history section which might be of interest in the context of the current discussion. Interesting to see that ATM patents were registered in the 1930s!
History

The 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.

The first ATMs accepted only a single-use token or voucher, which was retained by the machine. These worked on various principles including radiation and low-coercivity magnetism that was wiped by the card reader to make fraud more difficult.

The idea of a personal identification number (PIN) stored on a physical card being compared with the PIN entered when retrieving the money was developed by the British engineer James Goodfellow in 1965, who also holds international patents regarding this technology.

The first Talking ATMs -- ATMS with private audible instructions for blind people -- were installed in Canada in 1999. The first Talking ATM in the United States was installed in San Francisco in October of that same year. By 2005 there were approximately 30,000 Talking ATMs in the United States.
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GeneralZod said:
Think you're mixing up your table quiz dictators beginning with Zeds. The other fella was called Zog.
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There's no doubt about it, but wikipedia brings you down strange paths.

This King Zog guy, didya read how many fags he smoked per day

In the absence of nightclubs or theater in Tirana, the king spent much of his free time playing poker. He was also a great lover of perfumed cigarettes, smoking about one hundred and fifty a day. His household expenses made up nearly two percent of the national budget.
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I have an EBS ATM Card and they never update them. I have had the same one for 13 years!
 
Another student one here from '94. I always get a funny look/comment about the age of the card when doing transactions in the branch (BOI). It still works so no need to change it.
 
GeneralZod said:
I've got a still working AIB Banklink ATM card from 1988, the year before the Berlin Wall came down.

Can anyone beat that?
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I have one from 88 as well. Blue and white. Heard on the Jerry Ryan show a few years ago a guy called in and said he had one from 84.
 
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