"Orienteer" wrote in message
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Can anyone help answer a query from a friend in Japan?

He's trying to find information about when magnetic stripe tickets were
first used, and heard that LT had some in the 1960s. Were there
experiments
before the current ones were introduced (1980s if I recall correctly)?

Didn't the old yellow strip cards have a magnetic strip? Can't recall when
they came in, though. Presumably when the first automatic gates arrived.
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