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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Keith Pitcher wrote:

> Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash
> machine?

A fair number of them (in fact most) are serial ports (though you may need
RS232/432 volt/current conversion) devices which are very easy to talk to.
Just think 'modem'. Kind off. Documentation is generally excelent.

Dw.