CC swiper / Cash machine
Erich Dollansky
oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Wed Oct 15 18:20:02 PDT 2003
Hi,
take a look at the web-site of Schlumberger. They do machines like
this.
All the documentation needed should be there.
There is even a standard behind. Most machines follow this
standard. Only the fields vary.
Yes, most machines are connected via RS232. The protocol is pretty
easy to do.
Erich
Q wrote:
> Interesting, documentation availability must depend on who you talk to,
> or what country you live in. I too have been trying to source the
> programming doco for an eftpos pinpad recently (an Ingenico device), and
> it has so far been mostly fruitless.
>
> Do you have any documentation for a similar device that you can forward
> to me that might give me an idea of what such a protocol would normally
> look like.
>
> Seeya...Q
>
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:40, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Keith Pitcher wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash
>>>machine?
>>
>>A fair number of them (in fact most) are serial ports (though you may need
>>RS232/432 volt/current conversion) devices which are very easy to talk to.
>>Just think 'modem'. Kind off. Documentation is generally excelent.
>>
>>Dw.
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