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 ...

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 ...

Before Hurricane Florence hit the U.S. this month, certain merchants prepared by stocking up on an unlikely item in the digital payments era: 1970’s-era carbon paper credit slips. Whenever disasters ...