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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: What's an EVE Box?
- Message-ID: <7760@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 19:43:28 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.004417.10354@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov6.004417.10354@netcom.com> lui@netcom.com (Stephen Lui)
- writes:
- >We have two Mac IIci's here at work with a box between the machine and the
- >keyboards. The box is labeled "Eve", but there's no clue to what its
- >function is. There's an Eve init file in the system file also.
-
- "Eve" is short for "Evil".
-
- "Eve" is an abomination. Such devices shall never touch any Mac of mine, nor
- any of those for which I am responsible.
-
- Software publishers who use them are uninvited to make presentations here. As
- far as I'm concerned, they do not publish any products.
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- It's a "dongle" - a hardware copy-protection device.
-
- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
-
- "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
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