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  2. From: niel@cars.com (Niel Bornstein)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
  5. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 09:29:55 EDT
  6. Organization: Heavy Objects R Us
  7. Message-ID: <01050023.lbu8j5@chinchilla.cars.com>
  8. Reply-To: chinchilla!niel@cars.com
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  13. In article <9235010.4295@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (comp.sys.mac.programmer), mtc@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael Trevor CUTTER) writes:
  14. >We are looking for a way to uniquely identify a Mac, probably one on a network,
  15. >but not necessarily. Is the serial number or similar available somewhere in the
  16. >ROMs or parameter RAM? (Highly unlikely, I know - specially since PRAM can be
  17. >reset)
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  20. How about the AppleTalk address?  I know, they are assigned dynamically,
  21. but if the network is mature it will stabilize.  Are machines being
  22. added to or taken off the network a lot?  
  23.  
  24. Or if it's a TCP/IP network, there's the IP address.
  25.  
  26. If they're not networked, I don't know.
  27.  
  28. Niel
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