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Balancing my check account
Balancing my check account
Posted Sep 14, 2005 10:31 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: Balancing my check account by hingo
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)
If you want to know your account balance, just log in to your banks website and check it out :-)
In fact that was done in Finland even before there were such things as web sites. I started using my banks electronic banking service around 1986. The menu-based interface was written so that it could be used with any text terminal (no cursor control needed). A bit kludgy but worked. Customers who signed in for the service got a little instruction booklet together with a floppy containing Kermit for MS-DOS...
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