Re: "32-bit Windows-powered ATM"
@AC
You must have been looking at a different brand of ATM to mine.
Mine definitely had no A/V - they basically booted a very stripped down Windows then went straight to the app. From memory it was all about the old tech - they didn't even support usb mice & keyboards, only PS2.
IIRC they only had 512Mb -1GB of ram - there wouldn't have been enough memory to run much else - every so often they'd lock up with a memory leak and the bank would need to flip the power switch for the whole unit. Thinking back, half of them were still Windows 95 too.
We would run occasionally run A/V on the unit, but only back at home base where we would be running diagnostics for the controller PC or replacing faulty components. Usually we would just yank and reimage the drive from master, guaranteed it would be clean.
I only dealt with the larger hole in the wall style or the big 1m2 4bin free standing ones though, not the little 2bin pocket atms you see today wedged in everywhere in the UK.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
