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From: KLUB@maristb.bitnet (Richard Budd)
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Subject: Wroclaw Cardphone System
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Date: 9 Dec 90 16:53:33 GMT
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tuvie!!iiasa.local!wnp@relay.eu.net (Wolf Paul) writes:
 
>Actually those {payphones in Wroclaw} probably don't accept credit
>cards, but pre-paid phone cards....
 
DPFAY@VAX1.TCD.IE (Deryck Fay) writes:
 
>there seems to be three systems in use:...

>* a magnetic card system used in Italy.  I think the Mercury phones
>in the U.K. also use a magnetic system
 
I believe the cardphones in Wroclaw are also using the same system.  I
recall seeing a magnetic strip on the back of the cards that were to
be used with the Wroclaw telephones.  Because it resembled the back of
my VISA credit card, I assumed they were credit cards.  Now having
read Wolf and Deryck's messages, I can understand they probably were
pre-paid cards using a magnetic system.
 

Richard Budd   KLUB@MARISTB.BITNET   Marist College   Poughkeepsie, NY 12601