The magnetic strip reader interfaces with the printer port of your PC and requires a 286 or faster processor. The kits come with all the hardware. software, and source code. Some soldering skills are required to assemble these kits. If you are not familiar with soldering, an assembled kit is available for $10 more.
I am presently sold out of track 1 readers, but looking for a new supplier.
The kits I have, read track #2 off of magnetic strip cards. On credit
cards, this is the track that contains the account number and expiration
date. Track #2 is the most common track used by magnetic strip cards. Often
school ID's and security cards use t rack #2.
The software will read in the card data, decode and/or make attempts
to decrypt the data if it is not in the 2 standard ANSI formats. There
are many more FUN functions available in the software (including GENERATING
a strip patern given an ASCII string). Click here for additional
information on the kits. For even more information, download the file
and read CARDOMAT.DOC
Download a copy of it here.
Plans, schematics, and program are in the zip file CARDOMATIC.ZIP
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site for CARDOMATIC.ZIP
... ~kyoorius