[Info-vax] SWAP or Purchase - DS15 for a Microvax 3100-98??? Anyone?

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Friday, 22 March 2019 19:11:32 UTC, David, Island Computers  wrote:
> Must be a model 98 in the US
> Customer is a defense contractor and says they cannot accept non-US 
> sourced systems...  Go figure. These were all built in scotland IIRC
> 
> David Turner

The country of origin on many DEC boxes was encoded in the serial number.

AY => AYR, Scotland.

Various sites have various magic decoder rings and similar, e.g.
as referenced in
http://comp.os.vms.narkive.com/yowxDDoU/dec-serial-number-date-of-manufacture
(hat tip to Hans Vlems, Paul Sture, and various others for those).

Paul Sture's website now 404s but the site/facility codes are still listed at 
http://vaxhaven.com/DEC_Facility_Codes