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formerly_gruntled t1_j6kokeg wrote on January 31, 2023 at 12:24 AM

Reply to comment by vanriggs in ELI5: Why are contactless payment methods faster than inserting the chip? by jimmysofat6864

I worked for a company that made an acquisition in 1982 that required the death one of the legacy computer systems. The reason we killed the better computer system is that it only had a single digit space for production facilities, and the merged company had ten.