Smart Cards – Phonecard Museum https://phonecardmuseum.com Card Technology Museum — History, Research & Collecting Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:19:01 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://phonecardmuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-Phonecard-Museum-Logo-Favicon-100x100.png?v=1781558091 Smart Cards – Phonecard Museum https://phonecardmuseum.com 32 32 SMRT-TMCF-0200-PBLC https://phonecardmuseum.com/museum-collection/smart-cards/france-smrt/telemediacartes/smrt-tmcf-0200-pblc/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 03:13:25 +0000 https://phonecardmuseum.com/?post_type=product&p=9097

PUBLICARTE (Publicarte Marketing Group) likely a general Demo card for Public Terminal or Public Telephone. Providence, Rhode Island USA 1987

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COSBuster/90. Likely a general Maintenance card for Public Terminal or Public Telephone.
COS refers to "Chip Operating System" so COSBuster may be a slogan to show off the smart card product?

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TST PUBLICARTE (Publicarte Marketing Group) likely a general test card for Public Terminal or Public Telephone.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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COMPUGRAM was likely an Automated Public Access Terminal developed by SMARTECH. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small series of Access and SETUP test cards for Smartech, in Halifax, and Chicago in 1989. The first design was TECHNICOMER CP8 design Activation cards. Test card Maintenance cards also exist.

If anyone was involved in these tests and demos, please contact us.

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TELLCARD was the earliest EFTPOS Smartcard project for Italy. Using Bull CP8 smart cards, Telemediacartes did a small scale demonstration in Parma Italy. 15 Pieces of Type 1 large font TELLCARD, and probably a similar number with smaller "TELLCARD" were produced. The project was rejected due to the high cost of Smartcards in comparison to normal magnetic cards.

It should be noted here, that a larger CP8 EFTPOS field trial for TELLCARD was conducted in 1985-1986 further north in Italy in areas close to the Swiss border. Cities of Bormi and Sondrino were included in these trials. see cards here:

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