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Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold? Or What's the Highest RCX Product Serial Number?
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:14:02 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail*AntiSpam*.net>
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Philippe Hurbain wrote:

Anyone care to report the S/N of a recently purchased 2.0?


The most recent RCX I have is numbered 720869.

Are we sure the numbers are consecutive?

In most business type numbering schemes, you add an extra digit
which is calculated from the others as a way to avoid problems
with typo's.

That may not be the case here because I don't think there are any
situations when the number is actually used for anything - but it's
possible that there are ten times fewer of these things than you might
expect.

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  Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold? Or What's the Highest RCX Product Serial Number?
 
Adding extra digits depends on the machine making the parts. Due to the uniformity and spacing of the numbers on all three of my RCX's, I'd say that's unlikely--but possible. On my RCX's, the numbers are all formed into the plastic, which suggests (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: How Many Mindstorms Have Been Sold? Or What's the Highest RCX Product Serial Number?
 
Hi Dick, (...) The most recent RCX I have is numbered 720869. Philo (21 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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