Re: Need AS/400 manufacture date

[barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Serial numbers starting with 10 were all manufactured in Rochester.  Serial
numbers starting with 78 were manufactured in Mexico (AS/400's are no
longer manufactured there), 44 in Italy and 65 in Ireland.  Serial numbers
theoretically are unique, however I can tell you from running the TAA
database that duplicate serial numbers do exist in the world.

I don't know if IBM can tell you the year of manufacture based on a
particular serial number, but if your procurement people have a pulse, you
can assume that they purchased the most current equipment available at the
time, and figure it based on that.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

914-251-1234
914-251-9406 fax

http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com




                                                                                
                                         
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Got an odd request from one of our managers.  He needs to know the
manufacture
date of all of our AS/400s.  I think he's making a case for replacing them
with new iSeries.  I physically checked our 9406-D60 and 9402-400 boxes at
this location, and could find nothing on these boxes regarding date of
manufacture.

I would imagine that Rochester would have this information, but who would I
call?  And what about the two boxes we have that were made overseas?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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