Title :
The credit card as a mass storage medium
Author :
Smith, Daniel F. ; Donnelly, T. ; Mapps, D.J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Res. in Inf. Storage Technol., Plymouth Univ., UK
fDate :
11/2/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Current credit cards store about 140 bytes of information on a magnetic stripe over three tracks. A system has been devised to store and retrieve more than 2 kbytes on a card while maintaining compatibility with current cards. To achieve this a combination of a multi-track read head and new soft decision techniques have been used
Keywords :
bank data processing; credit transactions; magnetic storage; plastic cards; access card; bank automation; bank card; banking; credit card; high information density; magnetic storage; magnetic stripe; multitrack read; soft decision technique; storage medium;
Conference_Titel :
Document Image Processing and Multimedia Environments, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19951194
