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How many characters can be programmed/written on the tracks of an ISO magnetic card?

April 26, 2017card characters ISO MAGNETIC programmed tracks written

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How many characters can be programmed/written on the tracks of an ISO magnetic card?

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This article refers to: All Cherry magnetic card keyboards Description: The ISO-compliant coding of magnetic cards is as follows: Track 1: 79 characters (incl. start, stop, LRC), each with 7 bits per character (6 Bit + Parity bit) at 210 bits per inch. Track 2: 40 characters (incl. start, stop, LRC), each with 5 bits per character (4 Bit + Parity bit) at 75 bits per inch. Track 3: 137 characters (incl. start, stop, LRC), each with 5 bits per character (4 Bit + Parity bit) at 210 bits per inch.