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Subject: Magnetic Stripe Readers
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Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 12:28:25 EDT
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I am soliciting recommendations or experiences with magnetic stripe readers.
The use for these readers would be to read Student and Staff Id cards.
The cards have an ABA compatible stripe.  Once read the code from the stripe
would be used to compare against a database to determine various things about
the card holder mainly, are they still a student or staff member.  The readers
should be serial port or keyboard port attached to a PC (IBM).  Any comments
or suggestions will be appreciated.
Jim Hisle
Computing Services
University of Missouri -- Kansas City