SparkFun Electronics - Magnetic Card Reader/Writer

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Magnetic Card Reader/Writer

sku: SEN-08634

Description: This is a heavy duty, low coercitivity, three track magnetic card writer and reader. This unit takes power from an available PS2 port (includes a pass through connector so you can still use a mouse or keyboard) and passes information through the RS232 serial port.

Please note: This writer works with low coercitivity cards only.

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Pricing

	13 in stock backorder allowed

$139.95	price
$125.95	10-99 (10% off)
$111.96	100+ (20% off)

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	by JQP +4.9 \| July 13, 2009 at 2:54 PM 0
Buyer beware. Mine is little more than a paperweight. It will not write lo-co cards that are readable by Verifone terminals. As best as I can tell, it doesn't actually write at all. And yes, the cards I'm using are most definitely "lo-co", not "hi-co".

	by Jdeals +1.5 \| July 15, 2009 at 9:02 PM 0
Hi, I would have to agree with JGP. This item is basically useless and neither Sparkfun nor the forum has been able to provide a clear path to simply copying/writing data. I have never had a project or product be so under supported or cluttered. All that I ask of this item is to copy card A to card B, at present there is no way to do this... Jules

	by bloomtom +1.1 \| December 5, 2009 at 0:55 AM 0
Has there been any progress on getting this to work? What exactly is wrong with it? Is it just a lack of working software? I can't seem to find a sub $400 3 track mag stripe r/w and I don't understand why Sparkfun would sell such an expensive product that is known to not work.