Originally Posted by
BuddhaOnWheels
8902761 is the number I pulled off the bottom bracket. My understanding is anything on it might be a replacement, as the guy I bought it off of said he got most of the components from a Cannondale so hardly anything is original and all Shimano STX replacements definitely aren't.
Given the frame features, that is very likely a Taiwanese format and may represent February 1989. KHS used this format at one time but I'm not sure if they were still using it this late. Is the Norco reference due to being located in Canada? If so, that could help to narrow things down.