From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dee Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Do we need to buy checks? Article-I.D.: cca.4251 Posted: Fri Jan 14 10:28:29 1983 Received: Sat Jan 15 06:11:03 1983 References: hou5a.199 Almost all automatic check processing machinery these days uses optical character recognition of the numbers at the bottom although they were originally magnetic.