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Re: WANTED: Information on Apple II copy protection

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:54:48 -0600, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     There are stories that one vendor actually punched a hole in their
>diskettes so that users who tried to read the holed track would hit the
>snag and rip the diskette and/or mess up the drive head(s).

I can't help but think that's such a cool idea >:>

Wouldn't you trash something if the last track you read before you
turned off your puter was 35 or so?  When you boot the holey disk, the
drive would zing 40 tracks toward track 0, and hit it for sure.  I
guess the holey disk may have not been a boot disk...or maybe they
told the users to hit Apple-Ctrl-Reset before booting.  Do you(s)
remember what vendor/program this was?
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