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Originally posted by: Aki
I'm always fascinated with those magnet swipe card. Here, the bus tickets is a card made out of card-board with a thin magnetic strip along the side, I've always wondered how stuff could be stored in there.
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It's just like taping a length of mag tape from a cassette (remember those things used in car stereo's before CD's took over?). Data is stored in the exact same method. And yes the amount of data is extremely limited.
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Thanks for helping to get god pounded into my head
Another succesful faith based initiative. Just like 9/11
