Discover the history and function of knuckle-busters, manual devices once essential for recording credit card transactions, and how they compare to modern solutions.

Credit card payment methods have evolved dramatically over the years, from manual credit card imprinters to magnetic strip cards to cards with a computer chip that are inserted in a reader device. Get ...

Thanks to those magnetic strips on the back of credit cards, you can pay for gas at the pump or buy groceries at the checkout with one quick swipe through a card reader. No more clunky manual card ...

When jewelry designer Stephie Tchamanian was ready to open her store in Costa Mesa, she wanted a modern point-of-sale system that would enable her to take credit cards. She decided a traditional ...

Many people starting new businesses today are too young to even remember the days of the old-school credit card imprinter—you know, that clunky plastic device that made a carbon print of a credit card ...

DESPERATE retail staff resorted to using 1980s credit card machines as Visa’s network crashed this afternoon. Manchester Morrison’s staff posed with the old credit card imprinters, which they hailed ...