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Carddump is a C#.Net program designed to read from serial magnetic stripe readers such as the APOLLO P-MSR200.

Source is completely free to use, only downside is it's also not particularely well written.

I created this project with the aim of creating an easy to use card reader program for my own purposes, when I was unable to find a similar project to suit my needs already in existance.

It should work with the above mentioned card reader and likely works with several others using the same protocol. As I do not have any 3 Track cards however, support for reading the 3rd track is unavailable, and results in using a 3 track card may be unpredictable. Make no mistake the code could use a lot of improvement, it's provided as an easy solution to this particular problem, and a basis to go off, for anyone who's interested.

Software operation is extremely simple, just connect a serial magnetic stripe reader to your computer, either via serial port or a USB serial adapter, and select the COM port of that serial interface in the program. Data streamed from a compatible card reader will be read by the software and formatted as a table.

Also note that this is for card readers only, it has no support for any writer devices.