[iamben]

Yeah, I worked for an agency around the same sort of time and saw exactly the same kind of thing.

I remember one site that saved all the CC and order details to a plain text file in the web root. This was opened using an FTP programme every evening and someone would run the numbers through the machine in their store and post out the orders...

[verst]

This surprisingly sounds very much like the actual ACH system still in use today in the US (from my limited understanding)