Couldn't resist. My first computer (My Dad's actually) was a Commodore that used a cassette player for non-volatile storage and a television set as the monitor. I am guessing it was a commodore 64.
Moe
On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 02:54:03 AM EST, Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2023, at 14:26, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users
> <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 10 Jan 2023 at 8:16, Go Canes wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Older Dell systems had a sticker with the Windows license key. You
>>> can use "sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM" to extract a
>>> license key that is embedded in the firmware. There is also a Windows
>>> program I have used that extracts the license key along with other
>>> useful info, but I don't remember what it is, and I don't have any of
>>> my Windows VM booted at the moment.
>>
>> Strange.. Looked all over the machine, and Only 2
>> stickers I find on machine are one that says Windows 7,
>> and another one that says Intel i5 inside??
>> But when I got machine, it had Windows 10 installed,
>> and CPU-z and lshw-gui both show the CPU as an i3 not
>> an i5?
>
> Oh man, it sounds like you got hustled. It sounds like someone put a
> Core-i5 sticker on that machine.
>
>> Think I've used belarc advisor before and think it
>> actually displays the windows key. Think it is Optiplex
>> 9020 small form..
>
>> Since the Windows 10 was installed on regular bios boot,
>> don't think the firmware would have any info.
>
> You can view the BIOS/UEFI infor with dmidecode. I use dmidecode to
> check BIOS/UEFI versions from the command line. I'm not sure if it
> would be helpful in this case, though.
>
Dmidecode will also list the service tag ona dell machine.
Barry
>> Just had a
>> small sda1partition with recovery, and sda2 was the c
>> drive on the 1T drive with 8G of ram. Had done a check
>> on upgrading cpu, but the socket and bios it reported
>> wouldn't support above the i3, or above the chips
>> generation. Recently upgraded CPU in one of my ASUS
>> motherboards from and AMD 2 core to AMD 8 core with
>> no issues. Did require a much better fan to keep temp
>> down. First computer was a Heathkit H-120 with 8088
>> and 8080 cpus. Had 768K of Ram with separate video
>> board with 192K of ram from video. Way back in 1983.
>> Old dos 1 with dual 320K floppies. So, lots of changes
>> over years..
>
> Jeff
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