TY - GEN
T1 - The history of the Swedish ATM
T2 - 3rd IFIP WG 9.7 Conference on History of Nordic Computing, HiNC 2010
AU - Thodenius, Björn
AU - Bátiz-Lazo, Bernardo
AU - Karlsson, Tobias
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper, we describe the first decades of the history of the Swedish Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Sweden was one of the pioneers in using ATMs, starting with cash dispensers or cash machines in 1967. The first machine was made operational and shown to the press on 6 July 1967 in Uppsala at Upsala Sparbank, only one week after the first cash machine in the world was made operational in the UK. The Malmo-based company Metior manufactured the Swedish machine. This paper seeks to document the origins and the early development of cash machines by Swedish savings banks, employing oral as well as archival sources. Interestingly, we find that the key actor behind the ATM technology was not Spadab, the computer company of the saving banks, but Sparframjandet, a company most well known for its campaigns to encourage thrift among children.
AB - In this paper, we describe the first decades of the history of the Swedish Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Sweden was one of the pioneers in using ATMs, starting with cash dispensers or cash machines in 1967. The first machine was made operational and shown to the press on 6 July 1967 in Uppsala at Upsala Sparbank, only one week after the first cash machine in the world was made operational in the UK. The Malmo-based company Metior manufactured the Swedish machine. This paper seeks to document the origins and the early development of cash machines by Swedish savings banks, employing oral as well as archival sources. Interestingly, we find that the key actor behind the ATM technology was not Spadab, the computer company of the saving banks, but Sparframjandet, a company most well known for its campaigns to encourage thrift among children.
KW - Automated teller machines (ATM)
KW - Cash dispensers
KW - Savings banks
KW - Sweden
KW - Technological change
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951054902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-23315-9_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-23315-9_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951054902
SN - 9783642233142
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 92
EP - 100
BT - History of Nordic Computing 3
A2 - Impagliazzo, John
A2 - Lundin, Per
A2 - Wangler, Benkt
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
Y2 - 18 October 2010 through 20 October 2010
ER -