ATM Access Should Be Restored Soon

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6:52 AM June 12, 2001

HOUSTON (AP) -- An ATM network crippled by the weekend flooding in Southeast Texas should be fully restored by noon Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Pulse said.

About 175,000 Automated Teller Machines and 300,000 point-of-sale transactions -- sales where an ATM care is used at a cashier -- were disabled in 22 states.

Access was disrupted when Pulse's primary and secondary power supplies were flooded in Houston. Pulse, a nonprofit electronic funds transfer network, has more than 2,600 financial institution members.

Officials were switching operations to a processing center in Dallas.

"We expect to be up and running by noon tomorrow," said company spokeswoman Cindy Ballard. "It doesn't happen instantly," said Julian Read, another spokesman. "It takes awhile to get everything back online."

Until this past weekend, Pulse had almost a 100 percent dependability record, he said. The emergency was the worst in the company's 20-year history.

States that were effected are Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Iowa.

(Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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-- Rich Marsh (marshr@airmail.net), June 12, 2001


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