Place of manufacture for DEC equipment?

Sean Caron scaron at umich.edu
Fri May 1 17:40:28 CDT 2015


How cool, thanks, Ian! Looks like my VAX herd is mostly from Albuquerque,
with a few from Westfield to round out the mix. I was curious about my
11/34 as well but I can't cursorily locate the serial tag on it. I'll have
to give it a more thorough once-over at some point ... Neat :O

Best,

Sean


On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:

> Jack,
>
> I’ve collated DEC facility codes from a few sites I have found and put
> them into a table.  This is from the serial number, so possibly anything
> that has a serial number might be decodable.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Ian
>
> http://vaxhaven.com/DEC_Facility_Codes <
> http://vaxhaven.com/DEC_Facility_Codes>
>
>
> > On May 1, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Jack Rubin <j at ckrubin.us> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to identify which DEC plant manufactured a specific piece
> of equipment? I'm certainly aware of the Maynard, Massachusetts label on my
> equipment and I'm pretty sure I've seen DEC Kanata, Canada on flipchip
> handles. Maybe even PR serial numbers on computers built in Puerto Rico.
> >
> > Can anyone supply any more extensive and/or detailed information?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jack
> >
> >
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