DESPERATE retail staff resorted to using 1980s credit card machines as Visa’s network crashed this afternoon. Manchester Morrison’s staff posed with the old credit card imprinters, which they hailed ...

Thanks to those magnetic strips on the back of credit cards, you can pay for gas at the pump or buy groceries at the checkout with one quick swipe through a card reader. No more clunky manual card ...

Many people starting new businesses today are too young to even remember the days of the old-school credit card imprinter—you know, that clunky plastic device that made a carbon print of a credit card ...

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Credit card payment methods have evolved dramatically over the years, from manual credit card imprinters to magnetic strip cards to cards with a computer chip that are inserted in a reader device. Get ...