I’m looking for a solution to an in-place infrastructure. We have a system of swipe card readers to read the magnetic strip on ID cards, and the current readers we have are connected by PS/2.
The new computers being purchased do not always have a PS/2 port, and we have not been able to find an adapter which will allow the input to happen. Currently the ones I have tested allow power to feed to the card reader, it will swipe, but then it just sits there forever until it finally times out and resets, but no input hits the screen, or it inputs the information incorrectly (omitting some characters or inputing random characters that are not in the card). The adapters work, I can get the adapter to provide input on a keyboard, it is just the swipe-card input from the reader.
The reader is an IDTech MiniMag IDT3331-33, tracks 1, 2, & 3.
