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That\u2019s why credit cards have embossed digits on the front, is to make a carbon copy in an offline machine like that.

The embossed digits are being phased out, though. I just got a debit card without embossing.

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(don\u2019t worry; I was born the year after this movie came out, and I didn\u2019t see one of these machines in use until I was like 25. at a Renaissance Faire. a stall that had lost power was using it as a backup for their Square reader)

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I thought I would find out what it was when I grew up then I grew up and they didn\u2019t exist

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We had one of these at my job in case of power outages.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they have a fancy name like \u201cimprinter\u201d or something, but everyone I know just called it the Kerchunker.

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The Card Verification Value, the 3 non-embossed numbers on the back, was introduced once online consumer purchasing using just the numbers and not the physical card handed to a clerk got big, such that the hundreds of carbon copies of your 12-digit number floating around the knees of every minimum-wage clerk in the city were no longer sufficient by themselves

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