Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protection ???

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Oct 1 13:34:14 2003

At 02:10 PM 10/1/03 -0400, you wrote:
>It's been a while, so I may not be remembering this correctly. What I
>do remember was that the copy protection was such that Lotus 123 had to
>be installed onto a hard drive. At install time the program would do
>some characterization of the hard drive (maybe the computer, too) so
>that at run time it could tell if it was running from the hard drive it
>was installed on. At install time, if a successful install, it would
>decrement a counter on the floppy disk (which itself had some trick
>tracks on it). Seems like it gave you two installs, so the counter
>started at 2.

  I remember that but I don't remember which version had it. The books for
V3.1 don't say anything about it but that certainly doesn't mean that it
doesn't have it!

   Joe
Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 13:34:14 BST