From: ydancer@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: Mag strip reader
Date: Mon Sep 20 16:36:04 1993
A friend of mine ripped off a magnetic strip reader from work and gave it
to me to screw around with. Anyway, if anyone here knows anything about
magnetic strip readers, or has some kind of software to operate the 
things, I'd appreciate any help. Here's some technical stuff about the 
thing...

The thing's made by a company called Magtek. It consists of two parts. the 
first part is the magnetic strip reader itself. It's connected via a phone 
cord to a keypad and 1 line LCD display. The strip reader also has 2 sets 
of 8-pin jumpers (16 total) and a serial output, which makes me think that 
the terminal/keypad part isn't really necessary (since I could send all
the input to it via the serial connection anyway.

Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated (I sure as hell don't want 
to resort to hooking the thing up and trying to communicate with it 
through my terminal software...)