Re: Mystery card

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@freenet.msp.mn.us>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Ralph Wade Phillips wrote:

> Hi, Greg!
> 
> > I also work at a "technology recycling" company and came up with a
> > card that's really mysterious.  It's about 1/2 inch shorter than a
> > Disk ][ controller card and is encased entirely in a black epoxy.
> > The only information on the card is a sticker that has the following
> > on it:    PC20553 Rev B/A
> >           S/N 101,508
> 
>         It's a serialization ROM for a copyprotected program.  IOW - it's
> basically useless unless you've got the software it was supposed to
> protect.
>         RwP

Hadn't thought of that possibility...I'd never heard of anything being
done for copy-protection on that large of a scale before for the Apple II.

The Apple II it came out was most likely from a school, so possibly it
was for some educational program.

Thanks for the info.

Greg B.

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