[PanoptesYC]

> Even 6 K is enough to hold your secret codes, your credit cards numbers, your driver license, other wallet contents, and even some electronic cash.

What was electronic cash referring to in 1998?

[monsieurbanana]

Could be one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash

> Chaum published the idea of anonymous electronic money in a 1983 paper; eCash software on the user's local computer stored money in a digital format, cryptographically signed by a bank

[bux93]

For example, the proton stored-value debit card, launched in 1995 in Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(debit_card) or Danmønt, from 1992 in Denmark which was compatible with the domestic Dankort debit card. VISA cash was theoretically available in 1995, and heavily java based according to https://web.archive.org/web/20211222162640/https://www.it.uc...

[kalleboo]

I remember using the Swedish implementation of Proton[0] to buy a coffee and bun at our high school's cafe and thinking it was so cool

[0] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_(betalsystem)

[fredoralive]

Octopus cards had already been introduced in Hong Kong, and I think similar cards had been trialled elsewhere, so it might be that sort of thing they’re thinking of?

[marginalia_nu]

e.g.

https://sv-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Cash_(betalsyst...

[iberator]

Does it run JavaCard as nearly all debit/credit cards?