Re: [NTLK] NID [Was: Help]

From: Grant [Smart Tag This] Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 13:34:43 PDT


Thanks David.

So the DS2401 is just an ID chip and nothing else? Is the only point of
using a chip like this on the logic board to uniquely identify the
hardware? Or are there other chunks of the NOS that use the ID number
(like Tow's NewtonID)?

I'm probably missing something blatantly obvious, but I find it rather
interesting that this type of thing would exist in a PDA.

g.

>There is a Dallas semiconductor chip (DS2401) that is a silicon ID.
>It has a unique 64-bit number programmed at time of manufacture.
>
>This can be read by software (i.e. Newton ID).
>
>If you send your newt to Apple and they exchange the MLB of course
>the ID will be different because a physically different chip is there.
>
>Unless I have overlooked something, the chip is only in the MP2x00
>series. It may be in the emate, I haven't looked yet.

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