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The U.S. Banking Industry Adopts Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (1959 – 1960)

The United States banking industry adopted MICR, (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition), which allowed computers to read the data printed on checks.

Filed under: Accounting / Business Machines, Data Processing / Computing