[LargeFormat] Kodak serial numbers

[Les Newcomer]

I think that's pretty much how it came about... a bunch of engineers 
kicking things around one night lubricated with copious amounts of adult 
beverages.

Les
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 02:29 PM, john frost wrote:

> I was thinking of Rochester as 'camera city'.....
>
> john (:>))
>
> Joseph O'Neil wrote:
>>
>>>   From 1940 Kodak used serial numbers with a two letter prefix 
>>> indicating the
>>> year of manufacture. The key word is CAMEROSITY for the numbers 1,2,3, 
>>> etc. ER
>>> would be 1945.
>>
>> -snip-
>>
>>          Is it just me, or is the "word" CAMEROSITY a play on the word
>> "CURIOSITY"?
>> joe
>>
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