I was in a meeting with an ID-card system vendor this morning which
involved, among other things, identification and "debit-card" use of
student/staff ID cards, acceptance of credit cards at various places,
and other things.  At some point this obviously crossed the line between
our terminal-based systems doing fee payment/parking/etc and the
previously independent credit-card payment system.  Our records need to
keep the credit card numbers in the event of refunds; so I asked about
some sort of reader which could supply data in-line (not unlike a
previous question here about barcode readers to insert data as if from
the keyboard/terminal).
 
The sales guy said he "thought" they had a replacement PC keyboard with
a mag-stripe reader built into it which inserted the data as if it were
typed when the card was swiped.  Sounded interesting.  Anyone dealt with
these before?  Vendors?  Approximate price?
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>