Comments on: Unembossed Visa Cards Coming to a Wallet Near You http://www.moneyunder30.com/unembossed-visa-cards-coming-to-a-wallet-near-you Personal Finance for the Young and Ambitious Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:23:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.moneyunder30.com/unembossed-visa-cards-coming-to-a-wallet-near-you/comment-page-1#comment-1735 Chris Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.moneyunder30.com/unembossed-visa-cards-coming-to-a-wallet-near-you#comment-1735 I used to work at Fry's Electronics. The computers that processed transactions worked off what I believe was an early version of DOS, later replaced by machines that ran Windows XP and ran the POS in the DOS prompt cmd.exe window. Needless to say, the systems went down quite often, sometimes for hours at a time (once for 3 hours on the day after Thanksgiving, black friday, at 5am, when the doors opened!) When that happened, we resorted to the old-fashioned imprinting machines after manually running the transactions through a separate credit card processing machine. I used to work at Fry’s Electronics. The computers that processed transactions worked off what I believe was an early version of DOS, later replaced by machines that ran Windows XP and ran the POS in the DOS prompt cmd.exe window.

Needless to say, the systems went down quite often, sometimes for hours at a time (once for 3 hours on the day after Thanksgiving, black friday, at 5am, when the doors opened!) When that happened, we resorted to the old-fashioned imprinting machines after manually running the transactions through a separate credit card processing machine.

]]> By: Sarah http://www.moneyunder30.com/unembossed-visa-cards-coming-to-a-wallet-near-you/comment-page-1#comment-1734 Sarah Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:26:43 +0000 http://www.moneyunder30.com/unembossed-visa-cards-coming-to-a-wallet-near-you#comment-1734 Actually I've seen them at a number of places, generally out-of-the-way places that either can't afford the electronic devices, or have no electricity (the example in my mind being Renaissance Faires). Of course this means little to the person who shops in the mainstream stores, but might mean something to folks like me who like the occasional shopping spree... off the beaten path. :) Actually I’ve seen them at a number of places, generally out-of-the-way places that either can’t afford the electronic devices, or have no electricity (the example in my mind being Renaissance Faires). Of course this means little to the person who shops in the mainstream stores, but might mean something to folks like me who like the occasional shopping spree… off the beaten path. :)

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