Place of manufacture for DEC equipment?

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Sat May 2 01:01:38 CDT 2015


I think we also had a plant in Ireland at a place called Mervue

Rod Smallwood


On 01/05/2015 23:40, Sean Caron wrote:
> 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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