The world will forever owe Shepherd-Barron a debt of gratitude to the man who invented the modern-day automated teller machine. Shepherd-Bron’s creation forever changed the way consumers access money, and paved the way for new self-service technologies such as retail self-checkout. The first networked ATM, which connected ATMs to outside banks, was created in 1968 by a Dallas-based automated baggage-handling specialist for Docutel named Don Wetzel. Today, more than 1.8 million ATMs are deployed throughout the world.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/remembering-man-who-gave-us-atm-p-559