The recent discussion of ATMs that fail to dispense currency reminded me that I meant to post about an apparently-new model of ATM I encountered in France earlier this summer. It belonged to the Societe Generale (sp?) and was manufactured by Diebold. The screen text was basically as usual. What was different was the way you got your money. Rather than having the money ejected part-way through a slot in the front of the machine, a (previously unnoticed by me) large horizontal (?) door opened. I looked inside, expecting my money to be lying there as if in an open drawer. No money. After several discombobulating seconds, as I considered whether I'd be able to get my money inside the bank, I realized that the money was there, after all. It was being presented edge-on (as in the usual dispensers), but the bills were being held vertically and only the edge was visible. In that position the money was extremely easy to overlook.
I used other Societe Generale ATMs, but only one was the style I described. I think it may have been in Lyon.