XWrench3
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so, i built my computer about a year and a half ago, i was looking at my system specs ( i forgot exactly how much memory i had installed) this morning, and stumbled across the id numbers for my computer, and wondered how they got there, who assigned them, etc. i do not have a problem having them, i just know that i had not done it. i noticed i.d. numbers on a printer at my daughter's doctors yesterday as well, and i was curious about pretty much the same thing. although that is a huge system (the doctor's office is part of the regional hospital) with a "mainframe" computer and thousands of devices connected to that system. i had thought that a "mainframe" computer system went by the wayside many years ago though. Spectrum Health has spent billions in upgrading every part of their organization, so i am sure their "home base" hospital has a system that was not built in the 1960's any more. i know they are THE major medical organization in this part of the state, and maybe more. and that all of the satellite doctors offices and smaller hospitals are all connected to that hospital.