Intel C1101A

The supplier (a different one from the one I first used) that quoted me on C1101A for the second round sent me a picture.. exact same 'lot' or 'job' number as the ones I have. So perhaps even that may not be meaningful? What are the odds I'd hit the exact same dates from two different suppliers? I'm thinking it's *fairly* safe to assume white ceramic is pre-76, at least.. but yeah.. might be impossible to ever really know. I'm just wondering why the price jumped to $40+ each all of a sudden! -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of dwight Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 6:52 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Intel C1101A I should note that the 1101 I have is a ceramic, non-A part as well. I've heard the same thing, Eric. Date codes are not dates. Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 3:42:49 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Intel C1101A On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 11:30 PM, dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote: Many years ago I heard from a not-necessarily-reliable source that Intel used lot numbers rather than date codes, so without access to Intel internal records, it wasn't possible to determine the manufacturing date.