On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:31:52 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 08:35:46 on
Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Robert Neville remarked:
(Note to USA subscribers: for a generation, Barclaycard and VISA were
synonymous in the UK.)

I recall some of my early trips to the UK, attempting use use a Mastercard,
getting a puzzled look from the clerk and having to say "Just process it like a
Eurocard".

Hmm, not sure what a Eurocard is

A Brussels-based operation which in 1968 entered into an agreement
with Mastercard giving mutual recognition of either's cards :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocar...ayment_card%29
that operation evolved into Europay which later merged with
Mastercard.

- the closest I recall is a cheque
guarantee card for an obsolete initiative called "Eurocheques",

A related operation. RIP 2002.

which
were a kind of cheque that you could write in any currency in the EU
(and long before the Euro was a currency - so we are talking about
Deutschmarks, Francs etc).

But I'm old enough to have had a Diners card, and to have found an
outlet which accepted it.