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Smart cards

For a UK start up developing high capacity secure smart cards, DesignWrights developed card readers and PC based access control software to help secure second round venture capital funding.

 

The PCB allowed two variants of the card reader to be built. The first was an "internal drive" version which fitted into a standard PCMCIA slot, the second was an "external drive" version in a separate enclosure. carda2.JPG (16113 bytes)
cardb2.JPG (19265 bytes) And here's one we prepared earlier !

Actually the design on the left is for a 1Mbyte "38pin Edge Card" and not a smart card. Connecting to a PC through the parallel port, we wrote a Windows application similar to Explorer to transfer files and format the card.

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