Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!apple!jdevoto From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: low-budget spreadsheet - summary of responses Message-ID: <27488@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Mar 89 20:30:05 GMT References: <37120@think.UUCP> <11010050@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <37578@think.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 16 In article <37578@think.UUCP> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes: [Chris Espinosa demoed a 1984 version of MultiPlan that still works on the IIcx.] [Ephraim doesn't believe it... > 1. The version of Multiplan distributed in 1984 was copy- > protected. I'd be amazed if the copy-protection scheme > still worked. If I remember correctly, early Microsoft copy protection used the simple- minded "invisible file" scheme: there was an invisible file with a special name on the key (which obviously wasn't copied when you copied the application, unless you knew about it and used ResEdit). So it's quite possible that the copy protection still worked. jeanne a. e. devoto jdevoto@apple.com