By Jerad Gallinger

Users of RBC debit machines across Canada were left to fend for themselves this morning after computer problems caused much of the Interac network to go down just before 10 a.m. The outage disrupted banking nationwide for almost two hours and stranded customers trying to use RBC-serviced point-of-sale terminals and ATMs. Moneris, the company that connects debit machines to Interac, apologized for the inconvenience. No word on whether they snickered while giving their mea culpa.