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From: graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer (dongles)
Message-ID: <3902@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 88 00:50:28 GMT
References: <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <415@stech.UUCP>
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Reply-To: graefe@tramp.Colorado.EDU (William S. Graefe)
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Summary: ADB now has the same thing.

In article <415@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
=in article <22628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) says:
==> What are "dongles"?

=At least on the Amiga, a dongle is a piece of hardware about 1/2 X 1 X 1 1/2
=inches which plugs into either game port.  Software which uses a dongle for
=copy protection won't run unless it's physically plugged in.  The bad thing
=about this idea is that dongles make great cat toys ...

Apple has recently created a provision for the Mac's.  On the SE, II, and
IIgs, they have created a new bus for input devices, called Apple Desktop Bus.
ADB has a provision for dongles which are called ADAPSO's.  They are the same
thing.  You plug it into an ADB port and the program will search it out,
and run, if it finds it.  This is the answer to the Lisa mistake made where
users could only run copy protected software on *their* machine due to
an electonic serial number.
Other ADB devices: relative position(mice), fixed position(graphics tablet),
appliances,
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