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Smart Cards Development Highlights
Milestones |
1967 – Jürgen Dethloff invents the smart card computer.
1971 – U.S. patent is filed for an information card for credit and accounting systems, having information storage capabilities and the ability to respond to computer controlled systems. This patent was the basis for a card with an IC chip.
1972–1993 – Patents, standards and “security through obscurity” choke off applications and innovation.
1974 – The idea of a truly “smart” card conceived by Roland Moreno, a French journalist who thought of a credit card with a microprocessing chip.
1976 – A French computer company (Cii Honeywell Bull) develops a smart card.
1980’s – Testing of the smart card in France by the National Communication Laboratory.
1982 – France begins to use the cards in Point of Sale (POS) applications.
1983 – Deutsche Bundespost begins to research smart card technology and their applicability to Germany's phone systems.
1983 – U.S. Department of Defense tests the IC card for military identification systems.
1984/85 – The French government supports the French banking industry, Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, in a project to implement smart cards on a mass scale; 16 million cards are created and put into use.
1986 – France Telecom implements 7 million telephone cards for the mainstream market.
1993 – Research in the different payment systems reveals that the interchange of information between smart cards and readers requires specifications.
1994 – MAOSCO and Keycorp create programmable smart cards.
1994 – EMV specifications created for electronic cash.
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