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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Software Piracy - (nf)
Message-ID: <976@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 11:24:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 11:24:27 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Apr-84 19:06:06 EST
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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I've got a Fortune 32:16 (and love it), and so far almost all the software
we've got installed/copied fine, but....

Bought VTE (from P2/i) and the first disk we got wouldn't install.  It
claimed it had another machine's serial number written in.  Had to send it
back and get a (virgin?) disk in exchange.

And then there's this horror story I heard from a friend, about a mainframe
(or was it a mini?) that used the same sort of protection technique.  Part
of the hardwawre broke/wore out and had to be replaced,...and suddenly NONE
of the software worked any more, not even the operating system, and cold
boot didn't work either.  Because the machine now had a different serial
number.

-Lee Gold
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	Barry Gold
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