[Info-vax] factory codes

[Robin Schipper]

Op 26-12-09 17:44, Tom Linden schreef:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> University of Scranton   |
>>>>> Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include<std.disclaimer.h>    - 
>>>>> Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
>>>>>
>>>>> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -
>>>>>
>>>> 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
>
>
>
you both just got mail ;)

With regards, Robin