[time-nuts] Cesium beam tube on eBay

[Dave Carlson]

Based on data I have, it pre-dates March 1986. Unfortunately the earliest 
serial number I have is 3156 (last 4 digits) so not extremely accurate.

This is definitely an old CBT and would be surprising if it had any life at 
all.

BTW the 1924A does indeed indicate 1979 and the 24th week, but please 
remember that this is the yyww of the last significant engineering change to 
the model number.
The 1924A prefix remained unchanged until the 3232A prefix (smaller-diameter 
CBT), over 13 years later, so not a good indicator of age, at all.

Dave Carlson

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bdale Garbee" <bdale at gag.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
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Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Cesium beam tube on eBay


> On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:57 +0200, Magnus Danielson wrote:
>> serial number 1924A02909
>
> If I recall correctly, HP serial numbers of that vintage are YYWWCNNNNN.
>
> YY is the year expressed in years since an epoch, usually 1960.  So 19
> means 1979.
>
> WW is the week of the year in which the last manufacturing change was
> made.
>
> C is the manufacturing location, A means USA.
>
> NNNNN is a sequential unit number.
>
> Bdale
>
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