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Question by diane
Submitted on 4/25/2004
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what is the storage capacity of a smart card?? please..... i really want to know!!!


Answer by robert hendry
Submitted on 5/8/2004
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1Kilobyte of RAM, 24 kilobytes of read only memory, 16 kilobytes of programmable read only memory, i found it on howstuffworks.com,

do you know what its storage medium is?

 

Answer by salman
Submitted on 11/12/2005
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The regular capacity of a smart card ranges between 1k to 256k . as samsung has released the world's first highest capacity smart card of 256k.

please read article to get more information
www.3g.co.uk/PR/Sept2004/8277.htm

 

Answer by ASH
Submitted on 6/4/2006
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A smart card is a card that is embedded with either  8 bit microprocessor with a memory chip or programmed logic memory chip. The microprocessor allows data to be added, deleted or manipulated onto the card (e.g, ID cards allow employee detail to be re-altered if needed to) whilst the memory chip allows only pre-defined programmed operations to occur (e.g, disposable phone cards only store credit time whilst it is dependent on its card reader to subtract the credit time.

 

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