So – there’s a hotel that needs their equipment to be in working state ASAP…Which meant replacing RS232 with USB. Also, the original COM-8P8C cable was lost, and, of course, cheap COM-8P8C cable for connecting to network equipment didn’t work.
He didn’t think of need of having a COM port, though.
#Msr905 usb card reader writer Pc#
My acquaintance working as the IT guy in one hotel had to replace the receptionist PC with a newer one. Unfortunately, it also is quite old – it has only RS232 port in 8P8C (Ethernet cable) form-factor, not to mention non-standard wiring. It even includes 24V 2.2A DC power supply, which is quite heavy and makes you question those cheap USB 2.5W card readers – like, are they really OK for most applications when somebody released such a powerful thing just to accomplish the same task? It’s also kind of state-of-art inside… Well, maybe it’s just me being used to see a lot of disassembled Chinese stuff =) MSR-206 is a pretty impressive piece of technology, incomparable to those cheap eBay magnetic card readers. This was of high urgency, so I’ve had to suspend my usual work activities and concentrate on this project yesterday. One of the projects I worked on yesterday is modifying MSR-206 magnetic card reader to replace RS232 port with USB. As you might have noticed, sometimes I work as freelancer in electronics =) It applies not only to fixing PC electronics and mobile phones, but also to repairing, modifying and designing my own solutions in consumer electronics.