[X-Unix] Putting Serial # into System Profiler

[Phillip Burk]

On Nov 26, 2004, at 2:06 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> 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.
>
> Ok, so why should _you_ be able to write to it?

A valid question.  Because I can.  And because I too have several 
computers that do not report their serial numbers to ARD.