On 18-Feb-05, at 1:15 PM, Phil M wrote:
On Feb 18, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Terry Ford wrote:
We sure seem to be going back and forth with this issue. Here is a
Apple techdoc from 10/2001 which says you can restore your Mac
Serial number by resetting your PRAM:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106529
But that only works for older Macs. Basically those running 9.1.
No, the technote states 10.1 which requires a G3 or G4 with built-in
USB. So that would be considered the newer set of computers, and
exclude computers such as the PPC 8500.
My point is that the Mac Serial number should be available for
computers running OS X in about 90% of the cases. If the Mac Serial
number comes back empty, then that is also a form of identification
(though not as good as an actual number).
BTW, I found a much faster way of getting the serial number through a
shell command:
ioreg -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep 'serial-number'
Did you look at the more recent note?
<http://devworld.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1103.html>
Things might have changed since 2001. And yes, it was 10.1 not 9.1.
Terry
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