Minimum Electronic Dauber Standards

Minimum Electronic Dauber Standards. (a) The device shall be designed to ensure that the participant is not subjected to any unreasonable physical, electrical or mechanical hazard. (b) Each device shall be identified with a unit identification number. (c) The device must allow the cancellation or correction of numbers entered in error. (d) Notification to the bingo location by a participant having a winning pattern or “bingo” must be made by means which do not utilize the dauber unit or the associated system. (e) Electronically stored cards must reside in a non-volatile read only storage medium. Currently acceptable means for storage of electronic cards are: 1. EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory 2. CDROM - Compact Disc Read Only Memory 3. HDD - Hard Disc Drive (f) Electronically stored card sets shall not change without the prior approval of the Commission, and the card sets shall be accessible to the Commission through on-site inspection. (g) Upon interruption of power to the daubing device, the device must be capable of resuming the present game with no loss of data upon the restoration of power. (h) The daubing unit shall be designed to ensure there are no readily accessible game-function related points which would allow any input and that there is no access to input or output circuits unless it is necessary for the proper operation of the game.