Some of the ones we had used were erased in that manner, but had to be programmed through really archaic commands in debug. We only ever sold one product that used them as they were just not compatible with a lot of parallel ports that were prevalent on many of the clone PCs of that era.
Worked with an engineer that had about 6 of those plugged into the back of his PC for various engineering software he used. He had to rearrange his desk to allow for the about 15"-18" of space they took up in the back. Invariably, at least one of those in the chain wouldn't respond, and he'd have to re-boot in order to *maybe* get it recognized. Fred On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jerry Foote <[email protected]> wrote: > Remember when we had uv erasable eproms. One of the dongles I used had a > window and you had to use a uv light to set it up. > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Fred Taylor > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:30 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: Copy Protection Schemes > > I think they go further back than that. I'm pretty sure my first exposure > to them was 1985 or so. > > Fred > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:26 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/6/2011 6:03 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > > > You mean those things that attach to a port? (used to be parallel > ports, > > > maybe other types now) Bleech! > > > > > > Those seem sooooooo 1990s!!!!!! > > > > -- > > Mike Babcock, MCP > > MB Software Solutions, LLC > > President, Chief Software Architect > > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > > http://fabmate.com > > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
