[Info-vax] factory codes

[Robin Schipper]

Op 25-12-09 14:03, Bill Gunshannon schreef:
> In article<2d2b59bd-2c8d-4606-b08d-508860ad37ae at m38g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
> 	H Vlems<hvlems at freenet.de>  writes:
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>> On 24 dec, 21:31, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>> dsnyder wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> The 3rd Digit indicates the year
>>>>>>              
>>>        
>>>>>> 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...
>>>>>>              
>>>        
>>>>> ...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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
>>> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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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.
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> I'll give it a shot.  The worst they can do is say "No".
>
> Merry Christmas everyone.
>
> bill
>
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if someone is interested, i can pull up a list of about 500 VMS systems 
that we have / had in our CMDB.

just give me a mail,

With regards,

Robin Schipper