[Info-vax] factory codes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <233563b3-a8c9-4787-abb3-af101f3869fe at j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
	H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> On 23 dec, 14:59, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>> dsnyder wrote:
>> > The 3rd Digit indicates the year
>>
>> > The 4th & 5th digits indicate the week of manufacture from
>> > January.
>>
>> > The remaining digits indicate the run number.
>>
>> > 00005 =        The 5th one made at this plant
>> > 00100 =        The 100th one made at this plant...
>>
>> ...at that particular year+week or whenever ?
> The answer must be 'whenever', or cumulative if you like. Otherwise
> it's difficult to explain serial numbers that end in .....A0123.

Hey, I just thought of something interesting.  Montagar must have quite
a list of Serial Numbers.  I wonder  how hard it would and if they would
be willing to extract them and provide them to someone (like me :-) and
we could run a report to show some stats on places and dates of manufacture.
I would get a real kick out of writting something in COBOL to do that.
That would bring back some memories and probably provide some interesting
info to the group.

(Yes, I realize someone could probably do it all with a line or two of
SQL, but let an old man have his fun.  :-)

bill

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