At Vassar, every student has a “VCard” which is a one-swipe magnetic stripe card. These include access cards (let you into buildings), bank cards (transaction processing), phone card (prepaid PIN cards), Credit or Debit Cards (revolving accounts that include a purchase transaction), and health cards (store personal medical history). Within these specific markets there are a vast variety of different types of magstripe cards. Some of these markets include Financial Services, Travel and Transportation, Health Insurance, and Education. Magstripes are used in a lot of different markets in modern day living. Magnetic Stripe Reader - credit to product image on DIY Trading Future uses of the magstripe could broaden into official documents such as passports, and one-swipe cards (a magnetic stripe card that has multiple purposes) are starting to become used more and more on college campuses throughout the country. These cards can have greater capacity than magstripe cards and have have broader information carrying capacities, that can be added or deleted, as well as being able to accomplish some more complicated tasks such as data encryption.
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In 2011, financial and transit cards constitute the largest group of cards with magstripes, and they all follow the ISO standards to “ensure read reliability world wide.” Another more modern type of swipe card is the “smart card.” These are more secure than magstripe cards they have a chip on the card that prevents the information from being damaged or stolen.
However, one of the most important dates for magstripes was 1970, where the standards were established for credit cards (which were first issued in 1951) and magnetic stripes became used. These “smart cards” were first patented in France in 1974. In the late 1960s the USA was using magnetic stripes in cards for the Bay Area Rapid Transit. The first official documented use of magstripes on cards is from the London Transit Authority who, in the early 1960s, installed magstripes on cards for the London Underground.
The technology of “magstripes” has been around for a very long time, but there have been several important advances in the magnetic card reading technologies over the past few decades.
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