Re: Country of Origin Codes

There is also this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AList_of_IBM_products, in the section "IBM Plant Numbers":

1 Endicott, NY, USA 2 Poughkeepsie, NY, USA 2 Belgium 8 Netherlands 10 Rochester, NY, USA 11 Lexington, KY, USA 16 Sweden 17 Switzerland 23 ? 24 ?, ?, Japan? 26 Austin, TX, USA 27 ?, ?, Japan? 31 United Kingdom 35 France 40 Germany 43 Italy 44 Santa Palomba, Italy 51 Montpellier 53 ?, ?. USA? 55 Greenock, Scotland 58 Amsterdam, Netherlands 65 Dublin, Ireland 93b 71 Germany 72 Germany? *75 Hungary* 78 Guadalajara, Mexico 83 Dublin, Ireland 99b 90 Wangaratta, Australia 91 Canada 92 Canada 93 Canada 97 Japan 98 ?, ?, Japan?



On 11/21/2023 8:44 AM, VERNON HAMBERG Owner via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

Hi Michael


I googled for "country code for ibm systems where built" and got a hit for something called Ardent Tool of Capitalism - article called IBM Plant Codes


Got lucky, eh?


Cheers
Vern


On Tue, 21 Nov, 2023 at 10:37 AM, Michael Mayer<michael.mayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Rob, I looked high and low for those codes and couldn't find anything.
What I did run into, while it has nothing to do with your ask, is this.

https://www.ardent-tool.com/#Reference

Not sure what anyone would do with it. I thought it was worth posting
just from a "this is kind of different" perspective.



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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Country of Origin Codes (Rob Berendt)
2. Re: Table of IBM Country of Origin Codes (Rob Berendt)

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message: 1
date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:45:34 -0500
from: Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>>
subject: Re: Country of Origin Codes

Perhaps I failed to communicate well. I was talking about the two digit prefix on IBM serial numbers like 78#####.

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message: 2
date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:47:22 -0500
from: Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>>
subject: Re: Table of IBM Country of Origin Codes

I got this from another source
01 - Endicott
02 - Poughkeepsie
06 - China
08 - Beaverton
10 - Rochester
13 - San Jose
21 - Guadalajara(Power)
23 - Raleigh
41 - Charlotte
44 - Santa Palomba
51 - Montpellier
65 - Dublin(i,p)
68 - Singapore
75 - Mainz/Vac
78 - Guadalajara
82 - Sumare
83 - Dublin(z,p)
84 - Singapore
97 - Fujisawa


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