Jerry,
I am looking at my manual now. It says that I can install it 5 times
fromthe original disks, but only once from back up disk. Only 2 back
up disks are allowed.
I have never installed it becasue I wanted to find a way to get around
this limited install deal. I tried copying the disk several ways, but
was unable to make a copy of the original install disk. My goal was to
be able to make more than one "original" install disks. That way I
could install it as many times as I wanted.
I don't really need to use it, Though. I bought it cheap from Goodwill
with all the original disks and manual, in very good shape. I'll buy
almost any old IBM software cheap when I see it at Goodwill.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
"Jerry J. Haumberger" wrote:
>
> On 2000-10-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Chad> said:
>
> Hi, Chad --
> I also have IBM Graphics Assistant (and have been able to install it),
> and I believe that the program won't let you install it unless you allow
> it to write to its disk -- where it presumably keeps track of the number;
> this is version 1.00 (1984). The manual shows how to install the program
> on floppy disks, but I don't see where there's a minimum number of installs
> for using it that way; however, it *does* specifically say that if you
> install it on a *hard disk*, you're only allowed five installation attempts.
>
> With a CD, I suspect an installation program could be made to be sensitive
> to a particular machine, which would make it reject being installed on
> a different one. That would make it *appear* that you could only install
> it once.
>
> Jerry [o:--] "The" IBM AT/5170 model 319 [--^~---] 9600kbps/30M HD
> *1986 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| [ =====_] 512k RAM - 8MHz
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