Atari Computers serial numbers database (and peripherals)

[calimero]

Hi,

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EDIT:
Here is databese: http://milan.kovac.cc/atari/chipmunk/
Please type serial numbers of yours Atari computers and equipment!
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is there any thread where we could post serial numbers of our Falcons? if there isn't any, maybe this one should be pinned!?

** and does anybody have clue what serial numbers represent? **
(and why serial on motherboard and bottom of case are different?? - should they be the same?? - maybe my case and motherboard are from different Falcons )

My Falcon numbers and board revision printed on motherboard:

CA401332-003
REV - D/C
1992.
Y 43602 007192

and serial from bottom case:

ATARI FALCON030 UK
4MB
Y 43702 2 004176

motherboard-t.jpg

bottom-t.jpg

btw does anybody know how many Falcons are made in total?

[DarkLord]

Some controversy there, but wasn't the (mostly) agreed total around 20-30k?

(with approx. 20k being what Atari produced, and over being the C-LAB MK-1, MK-2, MK-X, etc)

[mfro]

There is a PCB serial number "deciphering" section in the Falcon Service Guide:

falcon_serial.png

Would make mine #11903 produced September '93. I've some doubt regarding correctness, however, since I have a 0 as "CONTROL CODE" which would make it pilot production...

[mikro]

Markus, that's highest number I've seen so far, my Falcons are crawling around #2000 and #4000. ;-) Anyone with a higher number? http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Ata ... _revisions suggests there's one with Y44902000977 (i.e. 09/1994) but this looks like an early C-Lab one, esp. judging from the S/N.

Next close is #11738, i.e. Markus still wins. ;-)

EDIT: (some time spent on googling later...) I couldn't find any Falcon motherboard starting with 12000 and later, hmm. Maybe the numbers of 20k+ are hugely overestimated?

[jury]

I couldn't find any Falcon motherboard starting with 12000 and later, hmm. Maybe the numbers of 20k+ are hugely overestimated?

Thats the number that quite many years ago ( at least 10 ) I have read somewhere by Rodolphe Czuba saying that there were about 12k Falcons produced.

[mikro]

Well, according to my "research", this definitely holds so far. And Markus might have gotten one of the *last* Falcons by Atari then. ;-)

[acsi]

I only have a Falcon Motherboard with the serial number Y43602006466

So June 93?

Would be interested to know if it was a C-Lab as it did have some mods to the headphone and mic ports (removed jacks and filters which I've reinstated)

Also has an Afterburner 040 fitted.

[mikro]

Yep, 06/1993. I'd say you're safely on the Atari side here. :)

[calimero]

Markus, that's highest number I've seen so far, my Falcons are crawling around #2000 and #4000. Anyone with a higher number? http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Ata ... _revisions suggests there's one with Y44902000977 (i.e. 09/1994) but this looks like an early C-Lab one, esp. judging from the S/N.

Next close is #11738, i.e. Markus still wins.

EDIT: (some time spent on googling later...) I couldn't find any Falcon motherboard starting with 12000 and later, hmm. Maybe the numbers of 20k+ are hugely overestimated?

According to interview (October 1993.) with Bob Gleadow, published by ST-Computer magazine:
http://stcarchiv.de/stc1993/10/intervie ... ob-gleadow

About 13000-14000 sold (40 percent in Germany alone), 4164 in stock. So it is close to 20.000

[jury]

Well, if there will not be found serial number above 12k than this is just a corpo lie.

I checked one of my falcons and its below 3k.

[mikro]

It doesn't have to be lie -- maybe they sold it to someone and they didn't sell it afterwards. That would also mean that there's a pile of 2000-3000 Falcons somewhere. ;) Also don't forget the "industrial Falcons", who knows, maybe the last batch went directly to the USPS?

[Atari030]

Probably next to the ET carts.

I will check my two and see what they are. How did Clab numbering work?

[mikro]

I think it's the same but the sequential number is reset to #000001. If your Falcon has >93 year of production, it must be a C-Lab.

[krupkaj]

My Falcon has this number on the board Y4 39 0 2 011401

[Faucon2001]

Or the remaining production stock has been sold to C-lab. Do we know if C-Lab has ever produced new boards or only used extra Atari stock?

[mikro]

Just recently I read that they really did order new boards. It was a Taiwan company, called EFA (you can like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/EFA-Manu ... 4805562164 :D), same company which had manufactured Lynx and Falcons for Atari. Also, the new S/Ns (new year of production + zeroed) would suggest that.

[Bama]

My "SonoVista" Falcon is # 003963.

[Bama]

Just recently I read that they really did order new boards. It was a Taiwan company, called EFA (you can like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/EFA-Manu ... 4805562164 ), same company which had manufactured Lynx and Falcons for Atari. Also, the new S/Ns (new year of production + zeroed) would suggest that.

Any chance they would have the molds for the cases?

[mikro]

Found the source of that claim: http://www.stcarchiv.de/stc1995/05_sylvie.php

So it seems around the end of year 1994 C-Lab had indeed ordered a new batch of Falcon motherboards (and casings+keyboards) which got delivered sometime around 08/1995. Until then they had been selling original Atari units, if I understood the article correctly.

[rj1]

Mine are:
Y4 33 0 2 000059 - #59 pilot production?
B3 34 2 2 000192 - #192

They both differ in terms of PCB color a lot, just as if they were done in 2 different fabs (Y4 vs B3).
One is dark green, the other is more pale green.

[mikro]

This guy seems to have #43: http://www.azog.org/?p=1482 ;-)

[calimero]

OK

Falcon Serial number on bottom case is DIFFERENT than Serial number on motherboard !!!

I check on three Falcons and on every serial numbers are DIFFERENT on case and on motherboard !!!


can anybody else confirm this?

[Faucon2001]

Same for me.

[krupkaj]

I have already checked it. And have not seen Falcon with same numbers on the motherboard and case.

[BoNuS]

Maybe the C-Labs have higher numbers ?