Jeff Kell writes:

>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, I have a packaged application running on a PC that uses a card swiper.
The keyboard plugs into the swiper and that plugs into the keyboard port on
the PC.  The details get a little fuzzy here except the output from the card
swiper is the PC keyboard scan codes.  So building the strip reader into the
keyobard itself is probably not a big deal.


John Pearce  <[log in to unmask]>     Bethesda Management Company
Speaking for only myself            Colorado Springs, CO  USA