Communications Law 302

[Duncan Frissell]

On Mon, 28 Mar 1994 nobody at 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