Re: DLM, MECC, TLC, educational software with copyprotection

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Jan 27, 2:48 am, lyricalnanoha
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, N.N. Thayer wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 8:15Â am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-gvm-this>
> > wrote:
> >> Â  To: N.N. Thayer
> >> Â  Re: Re: DLM, MECC, TLC, educational software with copyprotection
> >> Â  By: N.N. Thayer to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Jan 21 2009 09:55 pm
>
> >> Â > disk). Â The "Shogun" fellow mentioned in the crack intros is my dad.
>
> >> So, you truly are a son of a (sho)gun.
>
> >> Sean Faheywww.a2central.com
> >> bbs.a2central.com
>
> > Ha!
>
> > As I recall, he stuck entirely to educational software.  Maybe there's
> > something pseudo-honorable about that?  ;)
>
> Could be.
>
> Most of the stuff I copied as a kid was what I now call "eduwarez" - and
> it's a lot of what I'm trying to recoup from my old 1985/1986 disk
> collection and having trouble with.  MECC, Spinnaker and The Learning
> Company sure locked their software up... considering most people would be
> prone to acquire one copy, and make 24 for their class o.o;
>
> ...naturally, MECC, Spinnaker and TLC have been the hardest to find on
> Asimov.
>
> -uso.

If I am not mistaken, MECC allowed that type of copies.  That is why
they sold their backup utility.  But that was for classroom use only.