On Tue, 12 May 2020 15:26:12 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote: >Has anyone checked with the banking customers? I recall there was software >for check reader hardware. The 3890 seems to ring a bell. Also a quick >Internet search confirms my suspicions that the 3895 was a check printer and >the 3890 was a check reader. > >I still write checks <g> > Ed Gould, answering my question a while ago, said the timing requirements of such a device were so strict that it would have crashed during a leap second. When did MVS introduce leap second support? But perhaps the designers didn't worry about an exposure every couple years.
>On Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:37 -0500, Marna WALLE wrote: > >>Hello All, >>We had an internal small discussion wondering if there were any customers >>that still used these devices (the youngest of which went end-of-service in >>2014, from what I can find). I wanted to extend this conversation outside of >>IBM, to those that might have firsthand current knowledge. >> >>Here's the devices I'm wondering about: >> >>1287/1288 - IBM Optical reader and page reader respectively >>3540 - IBM Disk device >>3886 - IBM Optical Character reader >>3890 - IBM Magnetic Ink Reader >>3895 - IBM Printer device -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
