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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.030455.22661@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 03:04:55 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU> <absurd-161292095851@seuss.apple.com> <1992Dec18.190418.437@otago.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Dec18.190418.437@otago.ac.nz> anadig@otago.ac.nz writes:
- >In article <absurd-161292095851@seuss.apple.com>, absurd@apple.apple.com (Tim Dierks, software saboteur) writes:
- >
- >> continued in the Mac. The biggest single problem was serviceing
- >> these machines; if the PROM blew, you had to special-order a
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >The PROM blew? Just blew? Did this actually happen? I'm amazed: I though PROMs
- >(not EPROMs, mind you) were extremely reliable, more so than most components on
- >a typical motherboard. Did Apple have some special problems with
- them?
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- I don't know about in the Mac, but blasting the P5/P5A PROM on the old
- Apple II disk controller card was a fairly common occurrence.
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