Jeff Kell said:

> 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?

I have successfully used an RS-232 reader from Mag-Tek company.  It
worked
fine with the COM2 port of an ordinary PC.  Price was around $100 each.

Take a look at the web site of one of their distributers:

        http://members.tripod.com/~cswest/

Jeff Moffatt
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