I am the lurker that reads, absorbs and learns but rarely joins in. I play guitar (92 les paul among others) but my main obsession is analogue synths. I have a few rat clones but dont actually own a Boss pedal at present
Which brings me to this post, I built and maintain Boss (and Roland and others) vintage equipment manufacture date decoders.
The one of interest to your ilk would most likely be here :-
http://serial-number-decoder.co.uk/boss/boss.htm
It decodes the serial but cross references against model numbers for the periods where the serial returns more than one possible date, I update it roughly every week or so, whenever I am given new info. It also returns links to manuals if I have them, I welcome links for manuals I dont have.
Many posts from this very forum has gone in to helping me get dates for various equipment so I thank you for that. I welcome any input including extra ways to help people narrow down dates and especially where my tool gets it wrong.
I welcome any input and look forward to actually getting slightly more involved than I have been.
