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by camkego 42 days ago
If you look at the start of that episode, there is another crazy thing in there, a device which allows you to "see" the bits on a credit card track.

Apparently something called "magnetic viewing film" can allow you to see the bits on the magnetic stripes of credit cards.

I had never heard about this before.

Link to video time: https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978/Connections...