[Info-vax] factory codes

[Tom Linden]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:26:10 -0800, Robin Schipper <"thespriteman  
<remove_this> wrote:

> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> wolves
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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 be interested, maybe knockout  sample PL/I program.  Hey let's  
make this
a contest to see who can do it in the fewest statements in whatever  
language.
(note I did not say lines of code:-)

>
> With regards,
>
> Robin Schipper



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