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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (5839)	3/13/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Arrow Hd.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

Dale, I can support your position from personal experience with the manufacturing of computer systems. The serialization of a machine can be influenced by a number of issues or strategies. First, due to safety issues a manufacturer has to be able to have some ability to track down where their machines are so for instance, some computer systems using a seven digit serial number will use the first two digits to identify the country. So 51XXXXX means machines shipped from the US to France. Also, when multiple manufacturing facilities are involved one digit will identify the plant of manufacture and two or three other digits the country of install. So you cant tell a thing from a serial number unless you know the manufacturer's strategy and serialization methodology.