Re: System serial number
Re: System serial number
- Subject: Re: System serial number
- From: Tim Ramsey <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:20:23 -0500
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Beware, though, that some earlier Macs (the Lombard I am writing on,
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for instance) do not have programmatic access to their serial
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numbers. My computer has no idea what it's serial number is, and
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hasn't since OS9's Apple Info started displaying that information.
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This makes life difficult because the serial number printed on the
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bottom of the computer rubs off, but that's another rant...
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On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
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>Does any Mac has a unique system serial number?
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>And if yes, what do I have to do to find the serial number programatically?
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Seth A. Roby The Amazing Llama < mail or AIM me at
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tallama at mac dot com>
MacInTouch <
http://www.macintouch.com/> has had an interesting
discussion of serial number discrepancies for the last two days.
Today's note points out ways that one machine can have more than one
serial number. Trusting the progammatically reported serial number
seems more perilous all the time.
--
Tim
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
--Thomas Edison
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