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SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N
sinclai at ecf.toronto.edu
Tue Apr 19 17:38:14 PDT 1994
> Say, does anyone have a magnetic strip reader/writer? It might have some
> intersting uses, don't you think? ^^^^^^
A mag-strip may be copied from one card to another with a steady hand and
a dubbing tape deck. I'd hazard instead one could read the data into
a computer via a sound card and edit it to taste. Then drop it back on that
or another card by the same method.
This works for things like library photo-copy cards. I don't know if others,
like bank cards, require a stronger field to write. Also, there are probably
checksums or hashes on bank/ID cards.
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