[X-Unix] Putting Serial # into System Profiler

[Phillip Burk]

On Nov 25, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> On 11/25/04 3:13 AM, "Phillip Burk" <philburk at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Neither identify the exact process of accessing said serial number,
>> however.  There HAS to be a method of access.  The data is being read
>> from somewhere.  If we can read from it chances are it's writable.
>
> Why? There are things written in firmware that you cannot write to.

Because I have a very close friend who is a developer with Apple that 
has a G5 tower with no serial number returned.  His machine is refurbed 
so I expect that either the EEPROM has been flashed empty or the number 
wasn't flashed in.