16 May
2013
16 May
'13
5:41 p.m.
On 16/05/13 8:08 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Hi Fred,
I don't know if you used these systems at the time, but third party
disks were sold for Macs everywhere, *along with* appropriate formatting
tools. On a floppy.
Since OEM drives also always came with the right formatter (Apple's),
rather few people would ever have seen the issue at all: Basically space
cadets who bought bare drives and wanted to install them themselves.
Most of whom would have had a formatter.
(Highly retrospective) Storm in a teacup if you ask me. :-)
--Toby
>> All in
all, really, there was never any kind of real restriction in
>> using other drives that couldn't be bypassed by anyone, so I really
>> don't understand where the whole "only works with Apple drives"
myth
>> came from.
> It is NOT A MYTH. The fact that it can be trivially circumvented AFTER
> you know how, doesn't make it a "myth"
> It comes from it being DELIBERATELY blocked.
> Yes, somebody who already knows how can beat Apple's attempt at lock-in.
On Thu, 16 May 2013, Toby Thain wrote:
Like buying _any of the 3rd party formatters_
that were advertised in
every issue of every Mac magazine? Professional Mac users knew about
them and used them.
Yes, indeed.
Just exactly the same as "copy-protected disks attempt to block copying"
is not REFUTED by the existence of third part products created for the
explicit purpose of circumventing attempts to prevent copying.
The fact that a "PROFESSIONAL" as you stated, can manage to work around
it, does not mean that there isn't an obstacle.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com