From: Antonio Carlini
It was (iirc) described in DEC STD 012 (the part
numbering standard) ...
I do have (or did have) a DEC STDs CD at one point, but my copy of that
seems to be missing DEC STD 012. ... I've no idea why this one might be
missing.
It looks like you already uploaded it to Manx:
https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/standards/el-00012-00-0000.pdf
Looking though that led me to DEC STD 012-2 "Unified Numbering Code for Part
Identifier Class Codes":
https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/standards/el-00012-02-0000.pdf
which was exactly what I wanted. It's not the thing I remembered, but as DEC's
official list, in some ways it's better (although it's so detailed it's kind
of overkill :-)!
From: Vincent Slyngstad
the "Spare Parts List" links on this page
are relevant:
Volume II had a brief but early 'class code' list; I made good use of it.
Thanks everone! Much appreciated!
Noel