NEW YORK, NY, Nov. 16, 2004 -- It was 1969. Neil Armstrong had just taken his first steps on the moon, Woodstock grabbed a generation's imagination -- and the first ATM in the United States was installed in the borough of Queens in New York! Much has changed. The moon is no longer the focus of space travel, music has evolved and the ATM has become a way of life. In a poll conducted October 29 - November 2, 2004 by Harris Interactive(R) for the NCR Corporation respondents rated technology advances according to how much they would miss them if they didn't exist. Among American adults who have a bank or financial institution, 68 percent indicated they would miss ATMs if they didn't exist -- making this device missed by more people than the cellphone (at 63 percent) and the dishwasher (58 percent). Forty-three percent went so far as to confirm that ATMs have changed the way we live. From that first ATM installed in Queens, there are now over 384,000 such machines stateside and technology is improving every day. In fact, Americans enjoy one of the highest ATM densities on earth, with more than 1,300 ATMs per million people in the United States.

SOURCE NCR Corporation