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- From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,rec.humor
- Subject: Re: *** Floppy disk serial numbers.
- Message-ID: <2050@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:59:25 GMT
- References: <1jjsh1INNm52@ope001.iao.ford.com>
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- In article <1jjsh1INNm52@ope001.iao.ford.com>, jjhoxsey@knight.ta.ford.com (Major Lee Obvious) writes:
- >
- > A simple question that I thought of while preparing to backup
- > my hard drive.
- > Where does the serial number come from when MS-DOS formats a
- > floppy disk?
-
- A small portal into the 4th dimension admits a tiny portion of matter.
- The radioactive decay rate (which is different for each sample in the
- 4th dimension as EVERYONE knows) is used as the seed for a random number
- generator based in the 5th dimension. This generates a unique serial
- number which is passed to FORMAT.COM for use as the disk label.
-
- Really!
-
- :)
-
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