From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 07:55:51 PST
To: nobody@soda.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Communications Law 302
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On Mon, 28 Mar 1994 nobody@soda.berkeley.edu wrote:

> Does anyone know what happened to the banks lovely sytem a while
> back when New York account holders found out that withdrawls were
> made twice on their accounts?
> 
> What happened, did someone actually get creditted with the
> corresponding debits, or was this another case of an operator
> putting up a tape twice?

There was a software error in a switchover to a new ATM operating system
that caused double withdrawals.  They fixed it and refunded the money
within two days.  The bank got the float.

DCF