Yes, those are the date codes.
Here is what Guru John had to say about them:
>>>
TN is probably the factory (and Olympus used to have about 20 of them
scattered around Japan). The symbols used for the factories were all
changed in the early 80's. "01" is still year and month (1980, january).
John
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Giles
frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxx-stu wrote:
> interesting, does such a code look like `SAD3' or 'TND8' ?
> -But What`s the year, and what`s the month? - Are there
> any informations available how to decode this letters, or are all
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