digE for swiping credit cards. That, I thought was the job of the OS, like LINUX, and not Ethernet capability...``

???

The wireless net work is for retreiving the data created and collected from the card swipe.

The card swipe used for the origional hand held digEplayers...is a single unit colleting all credit card transactions...its wireless....and corrolates... first a swip of the FA ID card along with flight info....then a swip of the id card of the player unit...finally a swip of a credit card.....a reverse sequence entry to the swip is then entered upon collection of the units at the end of the flight...accounting for all units let out.

I have no idea what tech drives the swipe....or what security protects the data in it.

When the swip is placed within the DigEplayer...they may be the same self containd wireless units...redevised eliminating two of the above...the FA ID card swipe along with the digEplayer unit ID card swipe.

FA`s will not have the responcibility of a possiable missing unit.

Or the integeration of the on board swipe might be devised into the platform of the player.

doni