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Article #3740Re: *** Floppy disk serial numbers.
From: Dave Ratcliffe
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:59
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:59
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In article <1jjsh1INNm52@ope001.iao.ford.com>, jjhoxsey@knight.ta.ford.com (Major Lee Obvious) writes:
>
> A simple question that I thought of while preparing to backup
> my hard drive.
> Where does the serial number come from when MS-DOS formats a
> floppy disk?
A small portal into the 4th dimension admits a tiny portion of matter.
The radioactive decay rate (which is different for each sample in the
4th dimension as EVERYONE knows) is used as the seed for a random number
generator based in the 5th dimension. This generates a unique serial
number which is passed to FORMAT.COM for use as the disk label.
Really!
:)
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