>>> Oh, please .. I'm old enough to remember when credit cards had no 
>>> magnetic stripe, and credit transactions required carbon paper. :-P
>>
>> And I'm old enough to have actually collected money that way. :-)
>>
>> Along with the big book they sent you once a month with all the stolen 
>> card numbers.
>>
> 
> Touché
> 
> Wow, So.... how likely was it that someone would be caught with a stolen 
> card then? Oh, and no electronic means to check credit limits...

Interesting.

I had always assumed that credit cards exist *because* of electronic 
banking. :-P

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