Cannot read magnetic stripe cards using industry-standard card reader

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Mag-Tek MiniUSB Stripe Reader does not work under eCS 2.1, but does under Windows and Linux.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Connect card reader to USB port.
2. Open text editor (to accept input).
3. Swipe credit card.

Result:

Light goes out on card reader (buffer filled), and no data is transferred to the text editor.

Expected result:

Light should blink once as data is entered into buffer and then released. Encoded data (credit card #) should be input as text string in editor.

Comments:

This did not work with the 10.162 stack, and has not worked with any of the newer stacks up through 191. As meantioned above, it works perfectly well under other operating systems on the same workstation. As manually inputting card numbers actually costs a few cents more per transaction than swiping, this can be a deterrent to using eCS in retail applications (the Mag-Tek is the industry standard reader in the USA).

[David Azarewicz]

Duplicate of ticket 61