Echoes of a Cipher

4. Included in “NEW” Condition

EP9000: This prefix identifies the region and publisher. "EP" stands for Europe, and "9000" is the ID typically assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe.

It was a typical Monday morning at the Epson manufacturing plant in Portland, Oregon. Among the hum of machinery and the whir of production lines, a brand-new Epson projector model, the EP9000, was coming off the assembly line. This particular model, designated for the U.S. market (cusa), had just been assigned the production batch number 0880900.