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Youngblood
01-09-01, 02:24 PM
... to be accepted for inclusion (I assume this to be the case since the entry I did last week never showed up ... and in the comments I mentioned that I made up the week#), therefore, it is only reasonable to expect that the secret to which pair of numbers represents this info should be explained on this ... very ... site ...

... not doing so is a patent admission to the fact that that field is utterly bogus ...

There it is ... :-)

Tim-
01-09-01, 08:36 PM
Here you go-
example follows...

98140233-0011 MALAY - FPO# and country of assembly
9 - Plant code
0 - San Jose, Costa Rica (A6/T6)
1 - Cavite, Philippines
6 - Chandler, Arizona (A4)
8 - Leixlip, Ireland
9 - Penang, Malaysia (A1)
A - ???
Q - Malaysia
R - Manila, Philippines
Y - Leixlip, Ireland
8 - Year of manufacture (1998)
14 - Week of manufacture (14th week)
0233 - remainder of FPO# (test lot traceability number)
0011 - Serialization code
MALAY - Country of Assembly