[Info-vax] Part number encoding

[Michael Kraemer]

H Vlems schrieb:
> On Dec 25, 11:03 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> 
>>H Vlems schrieb:
>>
>>
>>>I'm guessing here but may be if the first two characters are digits
>>>the product code refers to hardware, otherwise it's either software of
>>>documentation.
>>>The last two characters are either a patch level or a (hardware)
>>>variant of the product. Software was issued on various media, called H-
>>>kits.
>>>The reason was that all media kits had product codes that ended in -
>>>Hn.  When n was 9 you got 9 track PE magtape.
>>>Hans
>>
>>Sure?
>>All CDs I know of start with "AG" and end with "BE", "RE", "XE" or "BS",
>>be it for VMS, DUNIX or Ultrix.
> 
> 
> Of course I'm not sure. The term H-kit was invented well before a cd
> was even thought of!

well, they could have kept the old nomenclature.
-HC for a CD kit for example.

> And by the time they were, it was to distribute music.....

When did the CD appear, 1981/83?
And when was the first time that software was shipped on CD?