I just bought another HP 50g

[Michael de Estrada]

(01-30-2014 01:08 PM)Jeff O. Wrote:  Let's say Mike's full serial number is CN21234567. This decodes as follows:

CN - country (sometimes indicates factory) of manufacture.
2 - years since most recent decade, so 2010 plus 2 equals 2012
12 - week of manufacture. there is some debate regarding how close this is to reality
34567 - individual unit no.

Actually, it is CNA229xxxx, where:

CNA is a Chinese factory code that can also be 4CY

2 stands for 2012

29 stands for 29th week, which is late July

xxxx is the four digit alphanumeric sequence number