Breathing Life Back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit

Re:Breathing Life Back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit by gumby on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:56PM (#37462334)

> I still use at least one non-chip/magstripe-only card regularly… Well, one day!

I’m 2018 I went to visit my family in Australia. Only one of my US cards had a chip but I called and got a different card to send me a chip version so I’d have two.

Got home, tried to buy a coffee and the bloke behind the counter called out to a colleague “hey, do we still have a way to pay with a chip?”

(Of course most places did, but it was on its way out)

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Re:Breathing Life Back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit by lxgr on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:18AM (#37466824)

Interesting, because everybody uses contactless there?

I wonder how well (or if) that works with European-issued cards – some issuers require these to be inserted and a PIN be entered every few payments to reset the internal risk counters.

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