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From: vahe@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Magnetic bank cards
Message-ID: <399@iuvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 17:49:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: iuvax.399
Posted: Thu Jun  2 17:49:18 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 02:33:11 EDT
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     Recently, my bank in town started offering automated teller services.
As a subscriber, I received a cute little card which has a magnetic strip
on the back, which I suppose has my code number.

     Since then, I've had terrible service.  My first card was chewed
up (presumably) by one of the machines.  My second one never worked,
not from day one.  The problem in both cases seems to be a loss of
magnetism in the card (the machine kept telling me to insert the card
strip down).  I'm waiting on my third card.

     I finally came to the conclusion that I might've been the one
to inadvertently screw up the card.  My terminal is in our electronics
shop, and I spend a good part of my day surrounded by CRT's with their
guts hanging out.  Finally, my question: do you think the magnetic strip
on the card is weak enough to be affected by me sitting 10 feet from
a bunch of CRT's and oscilloscopes?  Has something similar happened to
somebody somewhere else?
	        		Vahe Sarkissian
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