Re: Copy II Plus would be illegal today

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <9vmmu8$1j2a$1@nserve1.acs.ucalgary.ca>,
Byron Desnoyers Winmill <wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
>
>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. 

There were a few cards of this type.  Some even saved the contents of
memory to their own on-board memory.  You could use them as-is, or you
could use them as an aid to getting an entire program even if it did
load parts from disk.
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