This page, still a work in progress, will show how to use various Magnetic Card Readers for electronics / Microprocessor projects. I plan on creating a much more detailed page when time permits. Until then, here is what I have in electronic form.

I have experimented with two different types of magetic card readers:

	MagTEK 98831083 No longer readily available Tech Ref I/O Interface Tech Ref
	MCR-12 purchased from All Electronics Corp Product Info Data Sheet

The best document on how these pass data to a computer can be found HERE

Below is an example of a card scan that was captured on an o-scope and merged together to show all the signals and the translation:


(Note: The rising edge of the card detect signal is baraly visable at the end of the graphic)

Some other Documents:

68HC11 Experiment write up

Intel .ASM code - print bits on screen*

Intel .ASM code - print card number on screen (New and improved code w/ comments)*

* - Written on EMU8086