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new "oldest" HP86B? Message #1 Posted by Christof on 7 Feb 2003, 7:08 a.m. (I'm going to bed after this, I promise) Okay, so I'm looking at my 86B and comparing to the serno list.... Mine is: 2412A27868 which should be a bit older than the previous recorded oldest. (yay, I get a record for a while) I'm curious about the 27868. I somehow doubt that nearly 28,000 HP86Bs were made in one week in 1984. Maybe that number never really got recycled? -Christof

Re: new "oldest" HP86B? Message #2 Posted by David Smith on 7 Feb 2003, 5:57 p.m., in response to message #1 by Christof The production "weeks" of HP machines are not usually calendar weeks. They seem to represent the starting week of a production cycle or revision which may span many months. It also looks like the serial numbers on Singapore production are not reset to 000001 or 001000 when the "week" changes. They seem to increment sequentially through "week" changes. They even seem to never be shared among different product lines. It looks like as each item rolled off the assembly line, it got the next sequential number like off a roll of "take-a-number-and-wait".

HP86 Message #3 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 8 Feb 2003, 9:25 a.m., in response to message #1 by Christof I am glad you have been able to fix the video!

Re: HP86 Message #4 Posted by Christof on 9 Feb 2003, 3:33 a.m., in response to message #3 by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) very nice machine :) and some retired HP folks I know are trying to dig bits out of garages... one can hope something like a rom drawer will turn up :) sems that maybe having the oldest currently known to survive 86B is kinda cool....

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