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Originally Posted by kerry
... In the more rural areas, clerks appeared never to have run across magnetic strip credit cards.
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Bull sheet - that's just people being awkward - chips on credit cards / bank cards have been widely introduced in the last two years over here to try and slow down simple copying...
...before that people were swiping everywhere - and before that you had to put a card in a machine that then made an indentation of your card on carbon paper...
...and before that you had to use paper money...
...and before that you had to carry gold...
...and before that you had to bring something good to swap...