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Old 04-03-2001, 04:01 PM   #1
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Question: Do the smart card reader's that come with various credit cards(most noticeably blue from Amex) work with regular smartmedia cards? I doubt it, but Im curious if anyone knows if there is a way to use them that way.
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Old 04-03-2001, 04:18 PM   #2
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i think your confused, smartmedia cards are flash ram, Smartcards are just credit cards with a chip in them
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Old 04-03-2001, 04:30 PM   #3
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Mreh. They are trying to trick me into getting their card! Thanks hapoo.
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actually the chips on the credit cards are flash ram, but they dont hold very much data. the readers for "smart" credit cards WONT read smart cards simply because the connectors are different shapes and you would need software to read and write to the card.
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Old 04-04-2001, 11:26 PM   #5
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umm.. wrong forum.. DOH.. i'm not GAM
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Old 04-05-2001, 05:26 AM   #6
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CONNECTORS ARE NOT IN DIFFERENT PLACE!

Just to let you know that AMEX uses standard Iso 7816 and all of their connectors are in the right place, if you have settilite tv you could compare the two.
But the 2nd thing that amex programmer has some weird generator which doesn't read anything besides amex.
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Old 04-05-2001, 07:10 AM   #7
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YEAH! SO THERE! ...you people take your day jobs way too seriously... ROCK ON!
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Old 04-05-2001, 08:02 AM   #8
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What would be suweet is....

It is only a matter of time before someone out there finds a way to crack and hack those AMEX blue cards just like they did with the DirectTV H and HU cards. Just imagine, there is already hardware out there that will program and unloop them, it is only a matter of time before someone figures it out.
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