System Serial Number
The system serial number contains four or five fields of information: *
| Year |
year of manufacturer |
| Week |
week of manufacturer |
| Plant |
manufacturing location (see Plant Code below) |
| Software |
Beginning in July 1997, systems manufactured with
Shop Floor Execution use C up to fff units/week and
D if more than fff units/week are built.
The Shop Floor System did not use this field. |
| Build number |
alphanumeric or hexadecimal build number |
Example:
* The serial numbers for E10000s built in Beaverton are from
65000 to 65fff. The year, week, and plant fields are not used.
Plant Codes
| CODE |
LOCATION |
| C |
Mountain View Building 4, California |
| F |
Milpitas Building 4, California |
| G |
Westford, Massachusetts |
| H |
Singapore (Sun-3 Shoebox) |
| H |
Newark, California (beginning in July 1998) |
| J |
Melbourne, Florida (StorEdge A7000) |
| K |
Milpitas Building 5, California |
| L |
Milpitas Building 7, California (Specials Engineering) |
| M |
Linlithgow, Scotland |
| N |
Japan |
| P |
Billerica, Massachusetts |
| R |
Japan (used by Fuji Xerox) |
| T |
Milpitas, California (Re-Manufacturing) |
| EH |
Texas Instruments (SBus Expansion Subsystem) |
| FW |
Fremont, California (Ultra 5 and Ultra 10) |
| HW |
Hsinchu, Taiwan (Ultra 5 and Ultra 10) |
| TW |
Telford, England (Ultra 5 and Ultra 10) |
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