What's an ATM for? Playing chess, of course

[pne]

Or, how you can hit the minimise icon on the touchscreen and get to the underlying OS.

http://www.ulm.ccc.de/projekte/bankomat/index.html

(From risks_digest / The Risks Digest Volume 23, Issue 62)

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[robnorth.livejournal.com]

Not a bank machine, but I remember seeing one of the automated touchscreen ticket vending machine that Greater Vancouver's transit authority (http://www.translink.bc.ca) uses showing an old BIOS bootup screen once, rather than the familiar "Touch to proceed" welcome screen.

That evening on the way home, a tech was in front of the same machine. With the door open, sure enough, it was just a vanilla-looking PC inside.

Not sure about bank machines here. They all have relatively tiny screens (7"/18 cm is typical), and very few of them are touchscreen.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I once saw a local transport ticket machine saying "Disk error reading Drive C:. Abort, Retry, Fail?" (or something like that). In black and white text over part of the graphical display that it was supposed to show.

That was quite a few years ago, though.