Do you need a
Credit Card Terminal? If so I have one you can have for the
No, we have one
already, so I don't know what I'd do with one. It
might be fun as a "fool around" box, but most of these are 8051-type
boxes. A Z80/Z800/x86 model might be interesting however.
Verifone TRANZ terminals are Z80 based, and can be had for dirt-cheap.
I've got a LOT of experience with them, having gone so far as to write my
own development tools and a PC based simulator (info on my web site).
Handy little boxes even if you don't use them for card processing - small
form-factor, keypad, 16-character alphumeric VF display, and two serial
ports (also an internal 300/1200 bps modem). TCL programming language
is ungainly but fairly easy to use for simple tasks.
I can provide lots more info, suggestions on other models etc. but it's
wandering quite some distance from on-topic. Feel free to contact me
off-list of you have a burning desire to fool with this stuff.
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dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield
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