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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:42 pm
by Nodtveidt
Damn man...even my village has two...oh and don't forget about the loincloth-wearing coconut-tree-climbing hispanics... (inside joke)
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:06 pm
by Michael Calkins
PQBC wrote:
Micheal Calkins wrote:
Please eat more peanut butter!
Got you covered!
Thanks. :-)
Saw your post earlier, but forgot to say anything...
matt2jones wrote:
There is one set of traffic lights in my village, to help pedestrians cross the village road. That's right, THE road. We only have one.
Amazing. :-)
Regards,
Michael
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:13 pm
by moneo
Nathan1993 wrote: ......
Hmm... in Nebraska, back in the 1980s, my dad wrote a ATM program, and we went back there a few years ago and a lot of ATMs there still use that same program he made...
There's lots of hidden talent in Nebraska.
Ask your dad if he worked for the bank that installed these ATM's, or did he work for the company that supplied banks with ATM's.
There are different programs involved with an ATM system:
1) The program resident on the ATM itself, which operates the functions of the ATM: card and PIN reading, interface with the user, dispensing cash and receipts, and interfaciing with the bank's system via communications. Back in the 1980's these intricate programs ran on microprocessors like the Alpha-16.
2) The program on the bank's network that handles the input and output communications with multiple ATM's conforming to the protocol of the particular ATM's, and also communicates with the bank's debit and/or credit systems. This program also handles transaction encryption, processor redundancy, and ATM recovery and failure.
3) The debit and credit systems of the bank that have special programming for handling transactions from ATM's.
I worked on programs for #2 and #3 above. Which ones did you dad work on?
Ask your dad to email me at:
moneo@prodigy.net.mx
so we can talk about old times, and not bore the others with this stuff.
*****
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:58 am
by {Nathan}
Ill get him on here when he comes home... hes at a canoe clinic for my boy scout troop... cuz all I know is that he made the proggy...
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 12:03 pm
by SebMcClouth
Rotterdam, South-Holland, The Netherlands, sowhere in Europe...
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:13 pm
by moneo
Nathan1993 wrote:Ill get him on here when he comes home... hes at a canoe clinic for my boy scout troop... cuz all I know is that he made the proggy...
A canoe clinic, is that where sick canoes go?
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:38 pm
by MystikShadows
I don't know moneo, but I do know that a port of call is where ships come home to die. as so perfectly and beautifully sung by Sarah Brightman.
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:42 pm
by {Nathan}
haha! heres NATHAN1993 on LINUX interviewing his dad about the atms...
#1 anyway, he says that it did the communication with the bank.
#2 He doesn't think so, but he sounds unsure.
#3 That isnt a question.
As for emailing him, he says to email him at
tkessler0933@earthlink.net (dont worry, its not earthlink, that sucks... its Sprint DSL, but its lead or something by earthlink)
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:50 pm
by {Nathan}
Michael Calkins wrote:Please eat more peanut butter!
What brand?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:52 pm
by Deleter
west bloomfield michigan....there's no point is saying you haven't heard of it...no one has,
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:44 pm
by moneo
MystikShadows wrote:I don't know moneo, but I do know that a port of call is where ships come home to die. as so perfectly and beautifully sung by Sarah Brightman.
I'm not familiar with the song --- humm a few bars.
BTW, I always thought a port-of-call was any port that a particular ship stopped at.
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:09 pm
by moneo
Ok, I just sent your dad an email.
*****
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 11:51 pm
by Michael Calkins
What brand?
Not sure, but buying any brand will keep the price high. :-)
Hey, Nekrophidius, that's a neat animation. :-)
It must be an IBM keyboard. :-D Long the keyboards that you can lift weights with!
Regards,
Michael
P.S. Just tonight, I had a cup of locally made premium ice cream. It contains locally grown peanuts. It is very good.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:49 am
by {Nathan}
moneo wrote:
Ok, I just sent your dad an email.
*****
I, being the 1337 |-|4x()r (jk), read his email and saw it... nice... and he read it but didn't reply...
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:52 am
by woodhead
I live on Karkkila (i don't know how to say in english, but karkki is sweet or something... or candy in USA? So it could be something like sweetland or candyland
), Finland.
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:03 pm
by sid6.7
seattle,wa
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:50 am
by Kyle
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England