What's a Mag Card II?

From: Wayne M. Smith <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Apr 21 13:11:13 2001

> In a message dated 4/20/01 8:43:14 PM Pacific
Daylight Time,
> fernande_at_internet1.net writes:
>
> > What is it? I doubt they'll ever sell it, as they
have it at $59!!
>
> Far to high a price. It is an IBM Selectric
electromechanical typewriter
> attached to magnetic card read/writer for storage.
Proprietary IBM chips.
>
> Paxton

A few years ago I found some cards for this, scanned
and posted them, and then asked the list what they
were. They were identified as being for the Magcard.
The scans are still up at
http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/_uimages/IBMCards.jp
g if anyone's interested. They are the same profile as
80 column punch cards, but made of magnetic media.

-W.
Received on Sat Apr 21 2001 - 13:11:13 BST

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