[Milsurplus] ?? on Contract Date

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And yes, "I.B." means Instruction Book.  I.B. 121 is most likely a Bendix 
number.  I don't have a large enough sample to say for certain but it does not 
appear that they used suffix letters or numbers to indicate revisions as most 
other contractors did.  So I.B. 121 is not necessarily the first manual that 
they produced on the DU.

In a message dated 5/22/2006 11:13:40 PM Central Daylight Time, 
aw288 at osfn.org writes: 
> >Why the long time between the contract 
> >date and manual publication?
> 
> Quite normal to see a year or more time lag between a Navy contract date
> and the actual release of the equipment, especially for a new model of
> equipment like DU.

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