cardware

English edit

From card +‎ -ware.

cardware (uncountable)

(computing) Synonym of postcardware
- 1994, Peter M. Ridge, Sound Blaster: The Official Book:
  Two of the programs are "cardware" — the authors would be pleased to receive just a postcard.
- 2005, James Moran, Victoria Hull, Brilliant ECDL, page 29:
  Other forms of freeware/shareware are cardware/postcardware/emailware - instead of paying, you send the programmer a card or an email saying thanks.
(computing) The software and hardware supporting a smart card system.
- 1997, Laurens van den Broek, Annet J. Sikkel, Health Cards '97, page 95:
  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 […]