[Lvlug] Make magazine's magnetic stripe reader

Linc Fessenden linc at thelinuxlink.net
Sun Apr 24 18:30:35 EDT 2005


Mark wrote:
> Linc,
> 
>    The article was a little misleading where the price of the mag stripe 
> reader is concerned.  The model they use is around $26 from Digikey.com but 
> the $5 model is some other brand that I would have to hack before it could be 
> used.
> 
>   So, do you want to go ahead with the $26 model?  It would go a long way 
> towards a successful build.

Yeah man!

>   Second, does your computer have a game port and is it an x86 running at 
> 200MHz or faster?

Sure does!  But I though that thing ran through the serial port??



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-Linc Fessenden

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