Another easy way to ID pre-64 vs post-64 is to check out some of the internal parts. On the post-64s the cartridge lifter will be stamped steel instead of a machined piece.
Somewhere between 1982 when the Angle-Eject version was introduced and 1994, they changed the internals again back from the stamped lifter to a machined piece.
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