Smart Card Connector

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This article first posted October 28, 2002

AirBorn Smart Card Connector

I picked up a case of these and I'm not sure why. (Oh I remember) I have seen them on the web for $5.00 to $10.00 I am selling them for $2.50 each. They are new surplus parts. I opened the box myself and it had factory tape on it. Shipping/Handling is $5.00, for whatever fits into a USPS 2nd Day Air box. Maybe 10-12 with packing to protect the legs. I don't have that many so no dealers please.

The Picture

This is the actual connector

This has longer legs, I just used to show the Top view.

I remembered why I wanted these connectors. My buddy gave me a pile of older DSS 'H' cards and software for programming them. He told me he picked them up at a lawn sale a month ago for almost nothing. I guess Direct TV is telling their customers to trash them, they are no longer functional for TV. I wanted to put a smart card slot on the front of my computers to that I can use the Windows XP Smart Card Login. Currently I have no idea how to do it, but I'm sure I will figure it out and publish the results here. From what I understand, the cards have a processor equal to a 8051, with 4K of program flash RAM and a few bytes of Static RAM. The ROM, I guess allows you to run programs in Flash.
Some cards I got are bad and do not respond, others seen to respond OK.
If you have any of these 'H' type cards and they respond, I will trade one for one with these connectors. This is a limited time offer, I only need a handfull of cards, and they must be working and respond normally as I have no idea if they can be fixed if they don't respond.
Some Smart Card Info