• Juho Mäntysalo@mastodon.social
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    9 months ago

    @ConstableJelly@mastodon.social @TheConversationUS@newsie.social @histodons@a.gup.pe

    Going to guess that IBM was shortlisted for having the physical numbers under the bar code with biggish and easily read font. Back in the day I remember cashiers having to resort to it with some regularity, perhaps due to the scanners not being as advanced back then.