[Info-vax] factory codes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <2d2b59bd-2c8d-4606-b08d-508860ad37ae at m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
	H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> 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>
>> > wrote:
>> >> 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.
>>
>> (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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> 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.

I'll give it a shot.  The worst they can do is say "No".

Merry Christmas everyone.

bill

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Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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