Re: Copy II Plus would be illegal today

[Frank Hahn <fhahnisfake@yahoo.com.invalid>]

On 18 Dec 2001 06:15:36 GMT, Byron Desnoyers Winmill
<wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> In article <B844284F.36E6%tim@buffnet.net> you wrote:
>: I vaguely remember some sort of "copy card" that was available for
>: Apple IIs.  Does anyone know what it was, what it did, or how it
>: worked?
> 
> If you mean hardware copy protection, it is common to this day.  If you mean
> hardware to 'deprotect' software, I seem to recall an advertisment in Byte
> (1984ish) which claimed to copy the contents of memory to a floppy disk, and
> some sort of bootloader would put the program back into memory later.  I am
> guessing that the card would only work for programs which were loaded into
> memory completely.  Programs like AppleWorks would not work.  Granted I do
> not think that AppleWorks was copy protected (I keep finding manuals for that
> program, but never original disks), but that should give you an idea.
>
There was one device for the Apple II series called Senior Prom.  It
was a hardware device with a button coming out from the computer.
When the button was pressed, you could get into the memory of the
system and do different things.

-- 
Frank Hahn

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it
flips over, pinning you underneath.  At night, the ice weasels come."
		-- Matt Groening