Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!wivax!linus!allegra!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!iuvax!vahe 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 Lines: 20 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 ...{ihnss!inuxc | pur-ee}!iuvax!vahe