Computing

About

Computing is one of the top-level segments of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the scheme that gives every brick code used elsewhere on this site its place in a hierarchy of segment, family, class and brick. It covers whole computers from desktops to tablets and servers, the components and drives inside them, the peripherals, input devices and networking equipment around them, the software that runs on them, and video game consoles with their accessories and games.^[1] GS1 publishes its "includes" and "excludes" definitions only at brick level, so a segment such as this one carries no definition text of its own; that is why this page describes what the segment contains rather than quoting a definition, as the brick pages beneath it do.^[1]

In publication 286 of May 2026 the whole segment hangs from a single family, Computers/Video Games, which holds ten classes and 90 bricks. The largest is Computer/Video Game Accessories with seventeen bricks, followed by Computer Networking Equipment with thirteen and Computer/Video Game Peripherals with eleven; Computers, Computer Components and Computer Drives hold ten each, Control/Input Devices eight, Software six and Video Game Consoles four, with a final class holding nothing but the family's variety-pack brick.^[1]

The brick codes in this segment are unusually revealing, because they record the order in which its vocabulary grew rather than any logical grouping. The original block runs from 10001107 to about 10001370 and still enumerates the hardware of the period in which it was written: Floppy Disc Drives, Zip/Jaz Disk Drives, Tape Drives/Streamers and Swap Drives all remain as bricks in Computer Drives, and Personal Digital Assistants and Electronic Organisers remain in Computers. Everything the scheme has added since sits at the far end of the range instead of being inserted in place, which is why Personal Computers - Tablets/E-Book Readers is 10006276, Personal Computers - All-in-One is 10006405, Smart Watches is 10006743 and the two digital-delivery software bricks are 10006235 and 10006236.^[1] Two consequences are worth knowing before classifying anything here: a smart watch is filed under Computers rather than with watches, and software exists as separate physical and digital bricks, so the delivery medium decides the brick and not the title of the software.^[1]

The numbering otherwise follows the pattern used across the scheme, which is worth stating because it invites a wrong guess. Segment, family and class codes are prefixed by the segment, running 65000000, then 65010000, then 65010200, but brick codes are not: all 90 bricks here fall between 10001107 and 10006745, in one flat global sequence shared with every other segment. A brick code on its own therefore says nothing about which segment classifies it, and only the parent chain does, which each category file on this site records in its parent field. Mixed packs follow the ladder used elsewhere in the scheme: each class carries its own variety-pack brick, the family's is 10001370, and a pack whose contents leave the segment altogether belongs to brick 10000624 in the Cross Segment segment.^[1]

Subcategories

• Computers/Video Games

References

1. ↑ GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026) GS1. registry. Accessed 2026-09-12. Record: 65000000. Segment.