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use...@bbx.basis.com (news manager ) writes:

>In article <90Aug29.123...@me.utoronto.ca> zou...@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas") writes:
>>In article <1990Aug28....@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
>>>....The company running Structured Programming courses, who issued a free
>>>yuppyfax type notebook/time manager, with a pocket for floppies, the pocket
>>>being held shut by a magnetic catch...
>>>-- 
>>Many women's wallets (and some men's) now have the "hi-tech" magnetic
>>catch. I wonder how long it will take the credit card people (or the wallet
>>manufacturers) to realize that those magnetic stripes on cards soon
>>become useless.


>Actually: a sufficiently large static discharge through a mag 
>stripe *could* erase it through heating past the Curie(sp) point 
>or by simply vaporizing it.  But such a discharge couldn't go 
>unnoticed by the person carrying said card.

>BTW: the eelskin wallets were being held closed by a thin 
>magnetic clasp.

The 24-hour "gets you all access" card for staff in a local educational
institution had a magnetic strip on it (by magnetic i mean the card had
an attraction to metal surfaces, not quite enough to stick the card to 
a filing cabinet, but enough to notice it) that would eventually render
auto-teller and similar cards useless when placed together in a wallet.

"up 'ere for thinking"

rik.

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