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> Matthew On Tue, 12 May 2020 14:40:37 -0500, Marna WALLE <mwa...@us.ibm.com> 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 > >If you or someone you know *currently* has one of the above devices in use, >would you mind contacting me? I'm not interested in the past, when I know >these were once-popular devices. For instance, all LinkedIn hits I read were >all "prior experience" type of references. > >I'm interested in current 2020 usage of them. I appreciate learning about >this. >-Marna WALLE >z/OS Installation, IBM Poughkeepsie >mwa...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
