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From: lupin3@UCSCB.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Idea for Hardware Protection
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Date: 11 Jan 88 04:49:08 GMT
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+-In article <6512@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) wrote:-
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|   What happens when I have moved the
| BBS over to machine 2 (Duey), and I want to run a piece of software on
| machine 3 (Louie), while the first machine finishes formatting a hard disk,
| but no!  I originally ran that software on Duey, and it won't recognize
| Louie, but there is someone on the BBS, so I can't bring it down to 
| run the software.
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| Randy Spencer      P.O. Box 4542   Berkeley  CA  94704        (415)222-7595 
| spencer@mica.berkeley.edu        I N F I N I T Y         BBS: (415)222-9416
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  You said they were Amigas, so multi-task!  :)

  Actually, a very good point, and also easily solvable.  When you bought Duey
and Louie, you sent in your registration card to C-A, and say "I want my new
machine's dongles changed"... and they give you new dongles that work with your
first machine's serial #.  (I was thinking there could be a burnable area on
the dongle, that you could burn your name into so it would print your serial
# and your name (not that your name would be part of the protection), so in
this case they could mark the dongles as B and C, or as Duey and Louie...)
Anyways, while you were waiting for these in the mail, you just use the
dongle you already have (and maybe your backup on a second machine) to go
about your daily business.
  Better?
dongles changed
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