On 16 Sep 2006 03:37:25 -0700, "Neil Williams"
wrote:

Peter Frimberley wrote:

Having oyster machines sit there unused during the transition phase,
taking spaces from the cash only machines, would also have provoked
heaps of complaints.

There's no reason why a touch-screen machine that did both couldn't fit
the small slots.

Development and installation costs, waste of money developing two
sizes of cash/oyster hybrid machines.