Jeff,
 
I, too, have heard of such a beast.  I'm not sure of a vendor, but
KeyTronics makes all sorts of other types of keyboards ...
 
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jeff Kell wrote:
 
> 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]>
>
 
 
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