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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!kzoo!k044477
- From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Uniquely identifying a Mac? How?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.213302.11220@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
- References: <1gm3ioINN9uh@calvin.NYU.EDU> <absurd-161292095851@seuss.apple.com> <1992Dec18.190418.437@otago.ac.nz>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:33:02 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- anadig@otago.ac.nz writes:
- >absurd@apple.apple.com (Tim Dierks, software saboteur) writes:
- >
- >> continued in the Mac. The biggest single problem was serviceing
- >> these machines; if the PROM blew, you had to special-order a
- >
- >I would have thought the Lisa problem would happen when for whatever reason it
- >was necessary to swap the motherboard, at which point the soldered-in PROM
- >would be impracticable to remove...
-
- My two bits on copy protection: I have a Lisa sitting in my closet,
- complete with the manuals and original disks for LisaWrite, LisaDraw,
- LisaPaint, LisaDoodle, and LisaYodel. I also have a defunct 4.8-meg
- ProFile hard drive, which presumably has all that software on it, but
- which stubbornly refuses to work.
-
- The disks won't reinstall; I think the installation process marked the
- disks as "already installed," and it refuses to do it again. At least,
- that's what a Lisa reference book says (yes, I actually found one at a
- bookstore!).
-
- So, I bought $10,000 (1983 dollars) worth of hardware, probably several
- thousand in software, and a cool hard drive for under $15, and I got
- rooked. It's worth whatever a scrap metal dealer will pay for it (and,
- despite that solid lead case, I don't think I'll get $15).
-
- Even if I got the hard drive working, I'd have to call up the software
- company and ask them to send me replacement disks in exchange for the
- ones I have...anyone think I'll get them?
- --
- Jamie McCarthy Internet: k044477@kzoo.edu AppleLink: j.mccarthy
- "As you should know by now, we're strong believers in the Apple II
- and always will be. But we can't ignore reality forever."
- - Tom Weishaar
-