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- From: jcav@ellis.uchicago.edu (JohnC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.154937.11228@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 15:49:37 GMT
- References: <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Dec15.121756.23075@kth.se> <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU>
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- In article <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU> roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
- > Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, unless your Mac has an ethernet
- >(or, presumably, token ring) port, there is no built-in unique way to
- >identify the machine. I personally think it was a major mistake for Apple
- >to not have put some sort of machine-readable serial number in each machine.
- []
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- Apple's Lisa computers each had a software-accessable serial number. This was
- mostly used for copy-protecting software, including the OS. Ick.
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