deskthority

what order do the dates go for these models?

month, day, year
or
day, month, year

edit
month day year

Are you sure on UK model's as well?

yes this was what i was wondering is it the same even if its made in the UK where we normally go day, month, year

everyone should go yyyy/mm/dd. It's the international standard.

My ISO M from 1993 uses yyyy-mm-dd, but my old 122-key terminal M from 1986 uses dd-mm-yyyy. Both were UK-made.

i just checked mine
they are all yyyymmdd

And that's why I was saying in IRC, get the right socket, get the lid off, read what's on the chips.

If anything's later than 8606 or so, it's December.

nathanscribe wrote:My ISO M from 1993 uses yyyy-mm-dd, but my old 122-key terminal M from 1986 uses dd-mm-yyyy. Both were UK-made.

Same with UK model F AT's. mine is 21 Apr 1987 so no confusion there. dd-mm-yyyy

bhtooefr wrote:And that's why I was saying in IRC, get the right socket, get the lid off, read what's on the chips.

If anything's later than 8606 or so, it's December.

will do, need to get hold of opening tool from mate.

where is this info, had her apart yesterday

Look at individual chips on the controller.

If you don't see stuff in an "85nn" (numbers will likely be closer to 8552 than 8501, but who knows, I've seen some OLD chips on some boards - IIRC my beam spring was made in 1979, and has chips with 76nn date codes) or "86nn" (if numbers are above 8609, your board has either had the controller replaced or was made in December) format, just post what all the chips say.

Mine is uk made and is dd-mm-yyyy:

Well, given the label format, I'd say that's pretty conclusive.

Hi RougeRambo,

That's quite a find. It looks in pretty good shape for such an early model. Can you tell me where you got it from? I've been searching for a silver label UK Model M for years, without success.

Thanks