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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cheap card reader?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:31:29 GMT
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It would probably be easier to handle paper tape.  Old ASR-33 teletypes
can often be picked up for about $10 at swap meets.

A more elegant solution would be a magnetic stripe reader.  You can make
a reader using a tape head and some Plexiglas or pc board material.
Crooks use homemade reader/writers to copy codes onto cards this way.
The cards cost pennies.