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He received a degree in foreign trade from Loyola University in New Orleans.
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He played for the New York Giants farm system
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Got his first job working for IBM,even though his true passion was baseball
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Was promoted as branch manager and moved to Fort Worth, Texas.
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He then became a consultant to the banking industry in San Antonio, Texas and Houston, Texas.
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He beacme an sales man manager helping sale the punch card for businesses that did not own an IBM machine, Everything was done manually because no computers were able to yet.
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Sold his first computer to a bank, 1401 era
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First came up during a weekly meeting was just an idea, C"rd eating machine",
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Moved from Houston to Dallas working for his friend's company called Docutel as Vice President of Product Planning
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Don C Wetzel is given credit for developing the ATM card machine.
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First true bank ATMs, Docutel introduced its Total Teller
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ATMs were in the thousands at this time in the United States, and the machine cost about 30,000 dollars
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The atm was issued patent by Don Wewtzel and Docutel company
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Don founded three financial systems before retiring. The Financial Systems and Equipment Corporation
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After creating his mutli-million dollar businesses he was able to spend more time at home with his family, and they were able to travel together.
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Don Wetzel retired and is living in Dallas, Texas
