[Sderby] Potts

[Mike Hemstock]

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 17:44, James Tait wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've been lurking. :)
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> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 slh@f2s.com wrote:
> > Potts, on babington lane in derby, have just taken delivery of another
> > load of Compaq Deskpro EN, small form factor PC's. they had 2 stacks of
> > em, piled 5 foot high. apparently they're gonna sell em for about 40-50
> > quid Last time they had these in, i think members of SderbyLUG bought
> > most of em.
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> This reminded me.  Potts also had a load of magnetic card readers, and I
> picked one up at the weekend for a fiver, just for fun.  I was wondering
> if anyone else from the LUG had done the same and had any joy.  I
> haven't got mine plugged into a machine yet, but if anyone knows
> anything about them it'll save me some work along the line. :)
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> Cheers,
>
> JT

James,

I had the same idea a while back.  I wrote to the manufactures about the card 
and they advised me that they were custom made for someone.  I think it was 
BT.  I think they use a technology called watermark for the cards.  Anyway, 
they will only read a certain type of magnetic card that is licenced to BT.  
The negative upshot is that it's useless!

Mike.