Carbon paper packets were used when credit cards first came on the scene, before electronic card readers were available. The credit card would be put into a machine called a zip zap machine and a carbon paper packet would be placed over it. A slide would be run over both which would make an imprint of the credit card number onto papers for the merchant, the merchant’s bank and the customer.
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