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Can't remember which one but credit cards were offline for a time with something and places that still had the carbon paper roller things stashed away took them out and used them. They should keep those things around.
My friends and I used to call those machines ker-chunkers. ๐
Knuckle-buster was the industry term, and they were already obsolete 20 years ago...
I've heard it mentioned as a "fly swatter" in my mother's tongue.