cardware
nounEtymology From card + -ware.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Synonym of postcardware.
- Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard.1994, Peter M. Ridge, Sound Blaster: The Official Book:
- Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks.2005, James Moran, Victoria Hull, Brilliant ECDL, page 29:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.
- Detailed experience from other economic sectors as well as some partial data for the health sector allows us to calculate a factor the cardware costs have to be multiplied with to get total costs […]1997, Laurens van den Broek, Annet J. Sikkel, Health Cards '97, page 95: