Hi,
I know a company called Gravis (one of our customers) that do supply a
special MAC Macintish Version of CHIDPDRIVE extern SmartCard terminal.
Here is a link:
http://www.gravis.de/pages/angebote/angebote_specials.html#cardreader
The device can be ordered at:
Gravis
Franklinstraße 8
D-10587 Berlin
Tel.+49/30/39022112
Fax +49/30/39022119
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Thomas Kohn
TOWITOKO electronics GmbH
David Corcoran wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Most 'smart' readers should work on the Macintosh that used the serial
> interface that I provided. Readers that rely on line states will have
> some issues but not too terrible. What I was looking to do was place a C
> PCSC API ( Doug Barlow's SCard API ) that sits on top of OCF so that C
> based applications written for Unix or windows could easily be ported to
> the Macintosh. There is really not too much to interface. OCF requires
> the user to identify the card that is in use but PC/SC tries to take care
> of that itself - this does not always work so you can also specify which
> card you want to use in PC/SC. PC/SC tries to use the ATR as an
> identifying factor though this is not always accurate since many cards
> allow you to change the ATR etc. Due to poor ISO standards, this leaves
> the card management up to the user which human factors should tell us that
> is wrong. PC/SC does give you the options to use either method of
> connection though. If any of you will be attending the Linux Expo this
> next week please let me know.
>
> The MUSCLE site will probably be distributing OCF code and information
> soon. I would like to focus the site on 'Open Source Smartcard
> Initiatives'. I will discuss some future plans to interoperate PC/SC and
> OCF so we can cover a wide array of platforms using either an OCF Java
> interface or a C based PC/SC like interface. I should hopefully be
> distributing code for a couple of 'new' smartcard readers also.....
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
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