[Info-vax] factory codes

[H Vlems]

On 24 dec, 21:31, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <233563b3-a8c9-4787-abb3-af101f386... at j19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
>         H Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> writes:
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> > On 23 dec, 14:59, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
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> >> dsnyder wrote:
> >> > The 3rd Digit indicates the year
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> >> > The 4th & 5th digits indicate the week of manufacture from
> >> > January.
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> >> > The remaining digits indicate the run number.
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> >> > 00005 =        The 5th one made at this plant
> >> > 00100 =        The 100th one made at this plant...
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> >> ...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.
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> 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.
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> (Yes, I realize someone could probably do it all with a line or two of
> SQL, but let an old man have his fun.  :-)
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> bill
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Excellent idea Bill, though I'd probably do it in Pascal or PL/I just
to relearn that language.
Will you contact Montagar? I can't imagine why they wouldn't want to.
The SN by itself is pretty meaningless.
Hans