1 Oct
2003
1 Oct
'03
5:58 a.m.
No it's not copy protected. V 3.1 was after Lotus lost their bid on a
LARGE US Government contract due to copy protection and they finally got
smart and removed the protection. I have a complete package of V 3.1 that
I've never installed. I looked through the docs and they say to backup the
disk using "Copy a:*.*" and the tutorial doesn't tell you to insert a
floppy disk when starting 123 so it doesn't use a key disk either.
I have full sets of both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 disks if you have any problems
making a copy.
FWIW I'm pretty sure that version 1.xx were not protected. V 2.x were
protected and all versions after that were not protected.
Joe
At 12:52 PM 10/1/03 -0400, you wrote:
Does anybody know or remember
Are 5-1/4" original diskettes for Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protected
in such a way as to prevent the diskettes from being copied to produce usable
3.5" diskettes or a CD? I remember that the earliest versions of Lotus
1-2-3 required the diskette in the floppy drive as a "key" for the program
to start-up. I'm not sure what measures were taken for version 3.1.