info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) (05/31/84)
Date: 24 May 1984 16:32:22-EDT
From: uw-beaver!Duane.Williams@CMU-CS-IUS
Subject: Multiplan protection
To: utcsrgv!peterr
To: microsof!infomac
Reply to Mike Schuster:
The Multiplan protection scheme is quite reasonable and need not be a
nuisance, depending on your habits. You can copy the program and help file
onto another disk and then do your work there, greatly reducing the chance
of damage to the vital master disk. The master disk only has to be inserted
the first time the program is run after rebooting the Mac. You can quit and
restart the program thereafter, interleaved with whatever other work you
like, without having to use the master disk. If you leave your Mac on all
the time (as Apple's manual suggests), you can do without the Multiplan
master disk indefinitely.
I suspect the $10 fee for a second backup master disk just covers
Microsoft's cost of producing and sending it to you. Why don't they just
provide two master disks when you purchase the program? Probably to curtail
resale schemes. They will only provide the second disk to people who
register their purchase.
Duane (dtw@cmu-cs-ius)