Rusco Electronic Systems was showing off its Ruscard, what the pioneering firm was calling a door key with a picture. The card was employed at installations for AT&T, GE, Litton, GTE Data, Polaroid, the 1st National Bank of Boston, Raytheon and Swissair. Using “invisibly coded electronic memory cores,” the photo ID cards could be canceled immediately. Rusco said their canceled cards did not reduce system capacity compared to their competitors’ products, which used up their capacity when cards were lost, stolen or terminated.
Electro-Photo Systems went another way with its TRI-D portable identification system. It included a camera, photo die cutter and heat/ pressure laminator. An internal “baffle” let the operator take two photos separately or two identical photos simultaneously. Laminating pouches of varying sizes were available.