The BBC post notes that a card reader in 1970 could read a credit card out of your pocket today if it still had a magnetic stripe. Infamously, IBM’s CEO at the time was not a fan, reportedly ...

That’s where it’s going.” To the old-fashioned magnetic-stripe readers which still handle 90 percent of today’s transactions, the card looks like any other.

Automatic input devices Magnetic strip (or stripe) reader Magnetic stripes are built into many plastic cards such as debit or credit cards and personal identity cards.

Los Angeles, CA October 29, 2011. Card Scanning Solutions, the leader in image processing and OCR technologies, recently released a Java API for their Magnetic Stripe Reader SDK.

Hello! tl;dr I have an MC70 handheld computer with a DCR7000 magnetic stripe reader attachment running Windows Mobile 5.0. Do you know whether the magnetic stripe reader is able to read cards in ...

AnywhereCommerce is introducing a card reader about the size of a Zippo lighter that plugs into the audio jacks of mobile devices to accept both magnetic-stripe and chip-and-signature EMV payment ...