From: Dominique Pivard (domi_at_kenavo.fi)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 02:14:00 EST
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 at 10:57 PM you, Benjamin Koh <benkoh_at_stanford.edu>,
said:
>By "owner" I take it you mean "thief". No legitimate owner would remove a
>serial number.
Does it really matter if the sticker has been removed? On my TP570, the
serial number can be obtained from BIOS (and I don't think you can easily
change that one). There's also a separate serial number for the system
board and a UUID (more than 30 character long, whatever that is).
I believe other ThinkPads have their serial number stored in BIOS, so any
seller should be able to tell it, even if the sticker has been removed or
worn out beyond recognition.
-Dominique
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