Before you jump to conclusions: - The thread you cite is about R83, not AP. - That thread mentions scrambling, but they're talking about the encrypted serial number, not the system scrambling anything on the floppy. - The R83 floppies discussed there, if I'm not mistaken, are 5 1/4 inch floppies. After about 15 years, yes, you can expect them to go bad. - My definition of "consumable" is something that gets written to media with regular use. I will maintain that the R83 and AP floppies in question have no consumable, despite the fact (and don't ask me why) that you need to write-enable them to use them. - Evidence that there is no consumable is the fact that there are still hundreds of sites out there still running R83 and AP/Pro. Some companies, like VARs, used to trash their systems frequently in the process of development. If there was a consumable we would have known many years ago.
Remember, I've had some experience with this software, there is no consumable. ( Gonna feel real stupid if this one comes back to bite me, but I've been there before. :) ) Tony Gravagno, Nebula R&D Former positions at Pick Systems/Raining Data: QA Manager Corporate Technical Account Manager DBMS Product Manager Mark Johnson wrote: > A conclusion on this hunt. > Apparently there is a consumable as a search on comp.databases.pick > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ap+pro+boot+diskette&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&se l > m=082A2FA7D386D1119CC6006008661B490474AD40%40ftp.dataframe.net&rnum=1 > > showed more than one instance of a 'sector' being scrambled with > multiple uses of the diskettes. > > I suspected it as earlier, it said 'write protected' and I had to > 'unlock' the floppy to continue. > > Wish me luck in trying to get the activiation code for these 17 users > back. The freshly rebuilt system does work with the tape, but the > arnet boards aren't recognized as AP-Pro thinks that there is only 1 > user. > > Someone once compared Microsoft to PickSystems: Bill Gates is happy > getting 10% of the fees from 100,000,000 installations. Pick > apparently wants 100% of their 10,000 installations. Wonder if that > inhibited growth? > > thanks for all who responded. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
