Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Atlanta, GA, USA
Posts: 56

Has anybody gotten around to decoding the serial numbers on the visors? I have a blue deluxe sn ABBEB37900079, which was shipped on the 18th circa 9 pm. Am I to assume I have #79 made? Anybody out there have below 10?

Nothing like fanning the flames...

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: NY, NY, USA
Posts: 155

Freak:

I have 82, so I guess I held on for three hours longer than you when I ordered ;-)

I wouldn't sweat the numbers too much. The numbers, for all those listening at home, at on a small white sticker inside the battery compartment. Meaning that they are not "dedicated" numbers (ie not on the actual body of the unit), and so the numbers might indicate how many total units, how many of the color you bought, or the number shipped on that particular day (one, in our cases, I assume).

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
Posts: 24

FYI,

My Ice VD serial is: ABEEB37900306

Ordered on 9/16 Received 10/19

Do I have ice #306? Who knows.

Russ

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 22

Personally theory from all the above posts: the third letter is the color identifier.

Five colors:

graphite
blue = B
green
orange = D (this is what I have)
ice = E

The rest of the first letter sequence is the same, AB?EB. Okay, i'm geeking too much here.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Hillsboro, OR, USA
Posts: 64

I guess A is graphite because I've got ABAEB37900368. I got mine on 10/21.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Bellevue, Wa, USA
Posts: 72

Gee look at that! A, B, C, D, E!!!! Looks like sesame street...

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Salem, OR, USA
Posts: 91

I also have graphite - ABAEB36900531

I ordered on 9/14 and received on 10/20

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Midland, Texas
Posts: 231

Here's mine: ABEEB37900171

And you guessed it...ice.

ordered 9/14...arrived 10/22 ? <--not sure, out-of-town for a few days during arrival.

tyler

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 1

Blue Visor here #ABBEB37900015.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 25

ABAEB36901744

Graphite here -
Ordered 9/23
Delivered 10/22

I guess I have #1744 of the graphites.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 74

I have a green and the number is:
ABCEB38900038

C = green

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 112

ABBEB37900151

Like the Rum!


Blue

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"Vaya con Visor!"

-john

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 17

I havent seen anything on this for a while...but having just gotten my Visor DX yesterday,

ICE ABEEB40900897

I believe the first batch of visors was batch 369, with most of the first ones received in batch 379... Now we are in batch 409, the 5th batch...

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Posts: 26

Some companies put the manufacturing date into the serial number (I can think of one off hand, TI on their calculators). 369 might be the 36th week of '99, 379 and 409 would be the 37th and 40th weeks. Their may not be any 389 or 399 if the factory didn't ship any during those weeks.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 86

Very cool. If we can discover how many in a batch then we can figure out how many Visors were actually ordered/manufactured.

Heavy geek stuff but quite interesting.

(Me being a heavy geek and all)

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Gastonia, NC, USA
Posts: 9

I've got it!!!

The serial number's 369, 379, 409, etc. is the week and year.

369 = week 36 199(9)
379 = week 37 199(9)
409 = week 40 199(9)

Compaq does the same thing with their serial numbers.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Fairbanks, AK USA
Posts: 2

Graphite DLX ordered 9/14, received 11/01
ABAEB37900014
For those who are trying to figure it out.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 84

I work for 3Com and we use the serial numbers to gather information on the palm...model, manufactorer date, etc.
The manufactorer date is used to determine wheather it is still under warranty.

For those who are wondering on the palm the 6th,7th,8th digits represent the date. We use a combination of letters and numbers to decode the date.

[This message has been edited by sih (edited 11-11-1999).]

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Orlando, FL USA
Posts: 11

I have a blue VDx that I ordered on 9/14, s/n: ABBEB379000017.

Has anyone got an earlier number than 17?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 1883

I think they don't manufacture all colors every week....

Here's a ordered list of serialnr.
ABAEB36900531
ABAEB36901744
ABAEB37900014
ABAEB37900368
ABBEB37900017
ABBEB37900015
ABBEB37900079
ABBEB37900151
ABCEB38900038
ABEEB37900171
ABEEB37900306
ABEEB40900897

so,
week 36: A's (graphite)
week 37: A's, B's, E's (graphite, blue, ice)
week 38: C's (green)
week 39: ??? my guess would be D's (orange)
week 40: E's (ice)