ATM - Automatic Teller Machine

An Automatic Teller Machine is a machine that reads information off a little plastic card, usually a credit card or debit card, you enter a PIN (Personal Identification Number) and the machine gives you money.

The idea of the Automated Teller Machine is by no means new:

On November 12th 1946, the first drive-up banking facility opened. This was done by the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois. There were 10 teller windows with slide-out drawers (Source: uselessknowledge.com)

ATMs in different languages (yes.. Not too many - I don't speak that many languages. Send me info!!)

• American: ATM
• Arabic: "sar'raf a'lee" sar'raf = from sarf = give, sar'raf = giver. a'lee = automatic (thanks, hotthamir)
• British: Cashpoint^tm? or Hole-in-the-wall
• Canadian: ABM (Automatic Bank Machine, I presume) (thanks, stewacide)
• Chinese (mandarin): "zidong tikuan ji" 'zidong' means automatic, 'ti kuan' means getting cash, 'ji' is machine (thanks, dharmaraja)
• Danish: Dankortautomat or Bankautomat (thanks, carthag)
• Dutch: Geldautomaat
• Finnish: pankkiautomaatti (thanks, WWWWolf)
• French: guichet automatique (thanks, RubenAzarja)
• German: Bankomat or Geldautomat
• Hebrew: Caspomat (thanks, dejamorgana)
• Italian: Bancomat (thanks, baffo)
• Maltese: Cashlink^tm or ATM (thanks, Dwardu)
• Norwegian: Minibank
• Portuguese: Multibanco (thanks, RubenAzarja)
• Russian: Avtomaticheskii Kassir (thanks, taschenrechner)
• Spanish: Cajero automático or just Cajero (thanks, taschenrechner)
• Swedish: Bankomat
• Turkish: Bankomatik (thanks, atesh's cousin)

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