Reading in information from a machine?

message from anonymous on 26 May 2004
I have a card reader that can hook into a computer through
the com1 port. Is there any way to take that information
and put it into an Access database. That way we can just
scan the number into the system.
 

Archived message: Reading in information from a machine? (MS Access)
 
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