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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!otago.ac.nz!anadig
  2. From: anadig@otago.ac.nz
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec18.190418.437@otago.ac.nz>
  6. Date: 18 Dec 92 19:04:18 +1300
  7. References: <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Dec15.121756.23075@kth.se> <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU> <absurd-161292095851@seuss.apple.com>
  8. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  9. Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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  12. In article <absurd-161292095851@seuss.apple.com>, absurd@apple.apple.com (Tim Dierks, software saboteur) writes:
  13.  
  14. > continued in the Mac.  The biggest single problem was serviceing
  15. > these machines; if the PROM blew, you had to special-order a
  16.                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  17. The PROM blew? Just blew? Did this actually happen? I'm amazed: I though PROMs
  18. (not EPROMs, mind you) were extremely reliable, more so than most components on
  19. a typical motherboard. Did Apple have some special problems with them?
  20.  
  21. I would have thought the Lisa problem would happen when for whatever reason it
  22. was necessary to swap the motherboard, at which point the soldered-in PROM
  23. would be impracticable to remove...
  24.  
  25. Michael(tm) Hamel
  26. Analog Digital Instruments, Dunedin, New Zealand.
  27.