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by semiquaver 982 days ago
It used to be that many companies that accepted credit cards would have a backup carbon copy imprint machine to capture a rubbing of your card alongside your signature as an offline credit card capture mechanism that was reconciled later. They made a satisfying KA-THUNK sound.

Now that many cards no longer use raised numbers I expect such mechanisms wouldn’t work as well.