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Old Aug 25, 2006 | 12:30 pm
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The mag strip on the back of cards is segregated into "tracks". The standard convention is to place the cardholders' name in Track One. So, all the kiosk reader is doing is reading the information on Track One and matching it against the reservations database. As long as the card you swipe has the information the kiosk is programmed to look for in the same track, it should work.
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