What happen when an ATM crashes and reboots into a regular written matter of Windows XP on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University ? The world ’s first Diebold Brand Media Player . Using the touch covert and the character plotter in Windows , the ATM was reprogrammed to play various loop birdsong ( including Talking Heads ) while occasionally belching out ‘ What , am I made of money ? ’ via school text - to - speech . Almost as disturbing as college scholar willingly not engaging in theft is the fact that Diebold happens to be the country ’s larget manufacturer of eVoting machines . “ And that , son , is how David Byrne became president ! ”
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