Summary Of Specifications - DataCard CP80 Plus Service Manual

Summary of Specifications

The preceding sections describe where magnetic data can reside on a card. This
section describes the general format of that magnetic data. The following table
summarizes the data specifications for the primary standards.
Parameter
Bit Density
Total Length
Record
Length
Data Type
Start
Sentinel
End Sentinel
Field
Separator
Word Parity
LRC Parity
N = Numeric character set
A/N = Alphanumeric character set
2-28
ISO/IEC 7811
JIS Type I
Track 1 Track 2
210 75
79 40
76 37
7-bit
5-bit N
A/N
% ;
? ?
^ =
ODD
EVEN
JIS Type II
Track 3 Single Track
210 210
107 72
104 69
7-bit A/N
5-bit N
; DEL
? DEL
=
EVEN
EVEN
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