derek@speedy.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn) (07/19/87)
Hey, I got it -- how about making sure that the dongles pass the mouse port
along... that way you could have four or five of them hanging out the port
and still have the mouse plugged in.... :-)
Ooh, even better; now that we have an Amiga with expansion slots, how about
providing a "copy protection board" -- it has to be plugged into a slot in
order for the program to work. Copying a PC board is even more trouble
than copying a manual. Yeah, that's it...
derek
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in article <3930@spool.WISC.EDU>, derek@speedy.WISC.EDU (Derek Zahn) says:
-- Ooh, even better; now that we have an Amiga with expansion slots, how about
-- providing a "copy protection board" -- it has to be plugged into a slot in
-- order for the program to work. Copying a PC board is even more trouble
-- than copying a manual. Yeah, that's it...
--
-- derek
--
Its been done. Two ( was it really only two ) jobs ago the palce I worked
used a circuit desing package that ran on an XT. The package used its own
graphics card. If I remember correctly the software was very inexpensive,
but the boards cost around $3000. Our engineer guessed it had a build cost
of under $100.
Bob Pendleton
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