![]() A first approximation is to look at the manufacturing dates of all Xboxes in our database. ![]() Now we want to find out how many devices were manufactured. The three digits before (“209” in my example) are the one-digit year (“2” for “2002”) and the two-digit calender week (“09” for around the first week of March). The serial sticker on an Xbox looks like this:Īfter looking at several serial numbers, it was already clear that the last two digits (“03” in my example) are the location of manufacture: 02 is Mexico, 03 is Hungary, 05 is China and 06 is Taiwan. The original idea was to find a rule to deduce the hard disk and DVD drive types in an Xbox by only looking at the serial number, which was visible through the unopened packaging. This article describes the generic approach, shows some results, and provides previously unreleased raw data of 14,000 Xbox serials so you can do your own statistics!īetween October 2003 and January 2005, the Xbox Linux Project asked all visitors to their website to enter their Xbox serial numbers, date and country of manufacture, ROM version, hard disk and DVD drive brand and other properties, and gathered more than 14,000 entries. In 2010, a German hacker is doing the exact same thing with Xboxes. Slashdot had a story recently on how in 1942, the allies were able to estimate the number of German taks produced based on the serial numbers of the tanks. ![]()
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