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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!calvin!mchip00.med.nyu.edu!roy
  2. From: roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
  5. Message-ID: <1hb3o8INNt5h@calvin.NYU.EDU>
  6. Date: 24 Dec 92 01:28:40 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec17.105813.18407@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <peter-211292133304@rocky.curtin.edu.au> <bobert.725056383@godzilla>
  8. Organization: New York University, School of Medicine
  9. Lines: 13
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: mchip00.med.nyu.edu
  11.  
  12. bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy) writes:
  13. > Actually, most of the dedicated Unix workstations out there - including
  14. > Suns, NeXTs, and IBM RS/6000's - have serial numbers in a PROM on the
  15. > motherboard.
  16.  
  17.     Any box that comes with a built-in ethernet port has the moral
  18. equivalent of a machine-readable serial number -- the ethernet 6-byte
  19. hardware address.
  20. -- 
  21. Roy Smith <roy@nyu.edu>
  22. Hippocrates Project, Department of Microbiology, Coles 202
  23. NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
  24. "This never happened to Bart Simpson."
  25.