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From:Sean Courtney
Date:29 Jun 2001 at 15:40:32
Subject:Re: Dongles

--- Andrew Werchowiecki <healthent@iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> I'm sorry, I'm lost now. I thought that everyone was calling some
> kind of
> expansion thing a 'dongle' in jest. Is it actually called a dongle?
> What IS
> it?

It IS actually called a dongle.

I haven't ever actually USED a dongle, but I remember reading about
them in the old C64 magazines.

I THINK a dongle is a piece of hardware that you attach to your
computer to get a certain piece of software to work. It's nothing more
than an anti-piracy thing. I think on the C64 you'd put the dongle in
the cart port. I'm guessing you'd put an Amiga dongle in the game port
or maybe the floppy port...don't know. :\

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