Hi Guys
The most useful internal document we had when I was at DEC was the
Price Book.
It consisted of a 250 page line printer document reduced from 15" to A3
and bound into
Book format. Every saleable item was in there.
There must have been a database somewhere with every item DEC sold and
its part number.
Im unsure but there may well have been a corporate DEC 10 in the Mill.
Somebody, somewhere must have a tape backup of the price list. (Now that
would be a real find!!)
We never knew how the part numbers got allocated either.
However the product numbers like DLV11-J tended to be generated by the
Product Line
And the module numbers like M7786 were of engineering origin.
It makes a little more sense if you know the internal structure of DEC
(yes it did have one!)
Rod Smallwood
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Subject: RE: DEC parts code reference?
Jules Richardson wrote:
That's precisely my problem - I was spotting vague
patterns earlier,
but then something would come along that just didn't fit in, and
having a few exceptions makes the whole idea of sifting things based
on part code alone rather redundant :-)
DEC produced "stuff" for (just) over 40 years; naming consistency over
that period is a tad tough :-)
Someone sent me a copy of an Options and Modules CD set from the mid
1990s ... I think I sent it to Manx but I'm not sure how easy it would
be to make available over the net. (It's not the amount of data, it's
more how to present it).
Antonio