[Milsurplus] Format of Military Nomenclature (JAN)

[J. Forster]

Chris,

Nick makes a very good point. Some numbers can be ambiguous.

About 40 years ago, I was working on a word processor for the Chinese
language. Data entry was from an ASCII terminal, and each ideograph was
described by a coding systen called OSCO. The operator had to learn this
coding method, which used a combination of 3 or 4 ASCII letters to
describe each ideogram.

The 'puter (a Data General Nova 1200) used a look-up-table to convert the
entered letters into Chinese Telecode numbers (STC), used since roughly
WW1, and from the STC, displayed the ideograph on a TV monitor.

I(n the case of an ambiguity, and there were many, it would display the
most common ideograph first. A touch on the SPACE key, would display
alternates.

IMO, that kind of thing would help resolve the numbers interpretaton.

FWIW,

-John

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> Now you've opened up another can o' worms! :-) :-)
>
> CRV-12345 looks to me like a Navy Type Number from before the JAN system
> This component would generically be referred to as NT-12345.
> CRV-12345 would be an NT-12345 gadget manufactured by RCA (CRV)
> whereas CNA-12345 would be an identical unit manufactured by National
> (CNA).
>
> NT-12345 might be a component of Navy BBW-1 equipment (which would be
> an IFF system bearing no relationship to an AN/BBW-1 underwater
> remote-controlled pigeon).
>
> So don't let your data-base engine get confused over the earlier
> Signal Corps BC/SCR numbers and earlier Navy NT system
>
>  Cheers & good Luck!
> Nick
> www.navy-radio.com
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Chris Story <chris at codematic.com> wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the exceptional response!
>>
>> I am currently creating a database that is highly cross referenced with
>> the previously mentioned "Chesson" text data.  The goal is to allow open
>> text searches with a *single* text box... Entry of something like
>> CRV-12345 would return every system that contained that component. This
>> is an ongoing project for my website, Radionerds.com
>>
>> Chris Story
>> K6RWJ
>> chris at codematic.com
>>
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