[Info-vax] factory codes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4b34bd72$0$22939$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>,
	Robin Schipper <"thespriteman <remove_this> writes:
> 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:
>>    
>>> 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
>>>>>>>              
>>>>        
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 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.
>>>      
>> I'll give it a shot.  The worst they can do is say "No".
>>
>> Merry Christmas everyone.
>>
>> bill
>>
>>    
> 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,

I would certainly be interested.  It would give me data to work with
until I see if Montagar is willing to give me theirs.  And, the more
data I have to work with in the end, the more interesting will be the
report.

The email in the From: line is valid.

bill

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billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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