1 Oct
2003
1 Oct
'03
6:34 a.m.
At 02:10 PM 10/1/03 -0400, you wrote:
It's been a while, so I may not be remembering this
correctly. What I
do remember was that the copy protection was such that Lotus 123 had to
be installed onto a hard drive. At install time the program would do
some characterization of the hard drive (maybe the computer, too) so
that at run time it could tell if it was running from the hard drive it
was installed on. At install time, if a successful install, it would
decrement a counter on the floppy disk (which itself had some trick
tracks on it). Seems like it gave you two installs, so the counter
started at 2.
I remember that but I don't remember which version had it. The books for
V3.1 don't say anything about it but that certainly doesn't mean that it
doesn't have it!
Joe