Card reader/writer

[joseph Degorio]

Thanks for the reply (Melanie & jumper), I'm really a beginner and what I wanted to do is to use a card that will turn on a motor. What do you think is the easiest set up to use (components) to start this project?

thanks in advance,
joe

[Melanie]

The kind of overcoats I had in mind were the soft furry type...

Joe, it comes back to the reply posted by Jumper - what kind of card are we taking about? Credit Card type thing (Magnetic Strip), or an iButton type card (London Underground Oyster Card), or a Smart Card of sorts like you plug into your Satelite/Cable Box, or just a dumb EEPROM type card like you use for your Digital Camera's... there's loads of different cards out there, what kind of CARD did you have in mind?

[joseph Degorio]

Melanie,

magnetic strip is what I have in mind...

thanks for the patience,
joe

[Melanie]

This ready-canned program...

http://www.melabs.com/resources/samp...ed/MagCard.txt

...will dump Track 2 (the one containg the Credit-Card big number, expiry date etc) from the Mag-Strip into a RAM Buffer... what you do with it from there is up to you...

[joseph Degorio]

thanks melanie....