Re: Direct connect mag stripe reader

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to this, it is a socket server. I have a simple Socket Client at
www.think400.dk/downloads.htm that you might be able to use to talk to it.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to direct connect an iSeries to a magnetic
> stripe card reader?
>
> I found this device but it does not go into much detail on how to talk to
> it. Would I be able to use the sockets API to talk to this type of device?
> http://www.computerwise.com/ethernet/ep310.html#terminal_emulation
>
> I really do not want to get into having a windows system setup to collect
> the data and then try to get that up to the iSeries. I have used 5250
> connected time clocks but that is a bit overkill for my need. Which is to
> just let students swipe a card to clock in/out of a location.
>
> Or something a little more robust
> http://www.computerwise.com/time/ec305.htm  and use F1 to clockin and F2
> for clockout. This one would store internally and the FTP client in the
> iSeries could pull the data.
>
>
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