[Ham-Mac] Easter Egg

[John E Bastin]

On Jun 25, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:



> I learned something new today from one of the Apple Kbase updates.   
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> not aware of the "Easter Egg" in the About this Mac.
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> From: <kbchanges at apple.com>
> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:30:17 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Kbase changes for: 2005-06-24
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> Mac OS X: About This Mac window provides computer serial number
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> <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106486>
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This can be true, but not 100 per cent of the time. If the Mac has  
had a logic board replacement, the information will not be there or  
will be wrong (depending on the source of the replacement part).

In the case of a laptop, a processor module replacement will change  
the info (I have a G3 Pismo laptop, and the serial number in Apple  
System Profiler is different from the serial number on the bottom of  
the computer, because I replaced the processor module with a used  
unit, not from Apple).

73,

John E Bastin, K8AJS
jbastin at sssnet.com
http://www.qsl.net/k8ajs/