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The Smart Card
Widely used in Europe, the smart card is rapidly gaining acceptance in North America.
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Reading Smart Cards on Laptops
SwapSmart from SCM is a PCMCIA card that contains a smart card drive. SwapSmart plugs into the laptop, and the smart card plugs into SwapSmart. (Image courtesy of SCM Microsystems Inc., www.scmmicro.com)
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Smarty Turned a Floppy Drive into a Reader
Fischer International's Smarty allowed a PC's floppy drive to read smart cards. The card was inserted into Smarty, whose circuits emulated the magnetic field of a rotating floppy disk and transferred the data to the floppy's read/write head. (Image courtesy of Fischer International Systems Corporation.)
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