Finally, kudos to all who used a CueCat in one way or another to decode the string. Just having one of those still around is pretty hack-it-y. Because of the ubiquity of Barcode scanners and ...

Programming is performed on the barcode decoder itself, or via software on the host computer ... Choices include Codablock and Codabar; Codes 11, 128, 16K, 39, 49, 93; Data Matrix (Data Code); ...