How does the magnetic stripe reader on Cherry keyboards interface with the Pc?
This article refers to: All Cherry magnetic card keyboards Description: The CHERRY magnetic card reader keyboards can only read magnetic cards. How and where the data are written to the magnetic card depends only on the recording device and the application of the magnetic card. CHERRY is therefore unable to supply information about where, for example, the customer number can be found / deciphered on a card with magnetic strips. This type of information can be obtained from the place where your magnetic cards are written or from your application software supplier. CHERRY magnetic cards read the card contents one by one via the keyboard interface, i.e. the card data are sent to the PC system track by track, character by character, as though the card data had just been entered manually. Processing of the data in your application codes is therefore driver-independent. The data can be processed by the application program as pure keyboard entry strings. However, to distinguish between card d
