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Re:Ask HN: Why are SIM cards still a thing? by agumonkey on Sunday October 30, 2016 @03:54PM (#12831874)
I recently read the Wikipedia pages for health cards, and was surprised that these are demi-computers (by that I mean, no IO, no power). Standard chips are 4MHz >8bits these days (with added crypto etc). A Gameboy Air.
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