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Credit card machine.
You’re seriously not old enough to remember these 😂
I forget where, but my parents used to shop somewhere they still used them.
Last time I used one was at a gas station, where I was filling up the boat (80 gallon gas tank). They wanted extra precautions for me pre-paying $250 (us dollars) on my credit card. Had to get phone approval from the card company and they ran a card imprint as well. Total headache. Sold that boat, now I have a smaller boat with a 25 gallon tank (comparable to an SUV). This while thing was about 5 years ago, maybe a couple more.
É um leitor de cartão de crédito antigo
Looks like good memories
Used to manage a restaurant, when the point of sale system went down I had to learn how to use one of these real quick 🤣
😂😂
Ancient OFFLINE Point-of-sale Card Reader
Something similar in BTC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofCv2cHZ5b0&ab_channel=WorldCryptoNetwork
Something I actually carried with me when I did door to door sales.
I had one of those for arts & crafts show sales! Heavy little bastard.
And the noise it made, I thought it would cut your fingers off!
omg. back in the days of real trust. these could even be used without power and in remote areas!
Those were the olden days!
Some of those machines back in the day were so big and heavy. The sales person would make a sigh when you wanted to use a credit card, reach under the counter and pull out this huge 8+ pound machine and write everything then slide the loud..CLU..CLUNK! Sounding slide. And give you your card back.
I remember.
Proof of possession
Wow does that bring back some old memories.... To think people actually trusted it as the way to handle payment back in the day!
The ‘trust don’t verify’ days 😂
30 odd years ago
After a really long day
I placed the card
on top of the paper by mistake
And gave it my all !
and shattered the poor blokes card right in front of him.
The look on both our faces🤣
It's a machine for processing credit card payments. When I worked in retail, we used them when there was a power outage.
It is colloquially called a "Ca-Chunk" machine because of the sound it makes.
Some old dude is still living on his retirement from the social security i keep paying in who sold these his whole life. i am sure.
its a machine for torturing fingers