[10322] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Card Swipe Readers for VT320 terminals?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Tue Jun 25 20:31:37 1996
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:40:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: PACS-L Moderator <libpacs@UH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
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Please respond directly to the author, not PACS-L. Thanks, Linda
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>From: "Wilfred [Bill] Drew" <drewwe@snymorva.cs.snymor.edu>
>Subject: Card Swipe Readers for VT320 terminals?
>We are trying desperately to locate card swipe readers (mag stripe) for
>VT 320 terminals. These readers must have the capability to allow our
>barcode scanners to function at the same time. We were just told last
>week that with the new campus SUNY ID cards we will be required to use
>the ISO mag stripe instead of the barcode they were going to originally
>print for us on the front of the card. It looks like aesthetics are
>overtaking efficiency and common sense again. The card people don't want
>us taking up "real estate" on the front of the card.
>
>Please do not suggest that we get personal computers to replace the
>terminals. Given our financial situation that is not an option. Our
>card people will purchase the readers for us but we must keep the
>terminals because we just purchased new barcode scanners for them a year
>ago.
>
>Please respond ASAP directly to me.
>--
>Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Serials/Reference/Systems Librarian
>SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.; P.O. Box 902; Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
>Internet: DREWWE@SNYMORVA.CS.SNYMOR.EDU
>Phone: (315)684-6055 or 684-6060 Fax: (315)684-6115
>Homepage: http://www.snymor.edu/~drewwe/
>Not Just Cows Homepage: http://www.snymor.edu/~drewwe/njc/
>LibraryLinks: http://www.snymor.edu/pages/library/
>--
>
