Fairlight-CMI

That does make sense!

OK - so the alpha characters denote the item (CPU, monitor, keyboards), the next 4 digits are the month and year (MMYY). Do we know if the next 2 or sometimes 3 digits are he total produced for the month or the total production run for the series? I suspect it's the total production for the series, or perhaps all series? 

I do find it interesting that my IIx CPU and monitor were both made in October, 1980. I wonder if someone had a II that was send back and upgraded/refurbished to a IIx.

My IIx was owned by Kevin Kelley/Keyboardmuseum.com for a while. He has posted in this forum years ago stating that he had two systems at one point. It looks like I may have the CPU and monitor from one of those systems and the music and alpha keyboards from the second system. One of the systems that the Keyboardmuseum had is said to have come from Daryl Hall.

It sure would be great if we could find out who bought which serial number originally.

Thanks!
Kirk

--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "WT" <waveterm@...> wrote:
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> Cool !
> 
> Then my IIx is from September 1984 except for the Computer Keyboard which is from February 1985.
> 
> WT
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Kinematic 
>   To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 7:15 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Serial Number scheme?
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>     
>   Hi,
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>   Peter Wielk once told me it is exactly like that what Harald described.
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>   Cheers
> 
>   Roland
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>   Am 19.03.2012 um 17:47 schrieb "Harald Feldmann" <feldmann@...>:
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>   > Hi Kirk,
>   > 
>   > Peter Wielk and Peter Vogel probably know exactly how it works, but you
>   > can see 0783 as july 1983. 1080 october 1980. Presumably the next two or 3
>   > digits are the actual unit number. 50, 51, 198.
>   > my 2c.
>   > 
>   > Regards,
>   > Harald
>   > 
>   >> CPU serial number is SNA108050
>   >> Monitor is SNB108051
>   >> alphanumeric keyboard is SNC0783198
>   >> master keyboard is SND0783198
>   >> 
>   >> It doesn't look like there is an obvious manufacture date encoded in them
>   >> and it doesn't look like they are purely sequential serial numbers based
>   >> on the numerical order of production. I know Roland has some sort of
>   >> month/year of manufacture encoded into their old serial number scheme - is
>   >> there something like that going on here?
>   >> 
>   >> Does anyone have a clue as to how they numbered them?
>   >> 
>   >> Thanks!
>   >> Kirk
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