We have a potential requirement to produce a limited number of embossed PVC cards with magnetic encoding for an internal project. We are considering obtaining a read/write device (likely USB) suitable for encoding HICO magnetic stripes. Has anyone here any experience with suitable hardware and software that runs on CentOS-6? If so then what was used and what problems were encountered getting things to work?
TIA
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 14:16 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
We have a potential requirement to produce a limited number of embossed PVC cards with magnetic encoding for an internal project.
Why not consider either keyfobs or credit-card size cards with embedded RFID tags ? Each RFID has a unique ID.
Chinese sellers on Ebay sell them extremely cheaply; there is a 2-3 week postal delivery delay.
I have no knowledge of interfacing them to a computer system.
I saw my first magnetic strips at an IFIP exhibition around 1970.
Regards,
Paul.
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