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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:09:28 -0800
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT?] - Central point router
Message-ID:  <20010314230928.N9369@klapaucius.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103150446.f2F4kke76575@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:46:46PM -0600
References:  <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200103150446.f2F4kke76575@grumpy.dyndns.org>

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On 2001-03-14 22:46 -0600, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Garrett Wollman writes:
> > Am I the only person who saw that subject line and was immediately
> > reminded of Central Point Software, the company that sold programs
> > (like ``Copy II PC'') for duplicating copy-protected software?
> 
> Central Point Software started their life making Apple II software. 
> The ulitmate was a utility called Disk Muncher. Could do a 2-drive 
> duplicate in 38 seconds. Talk about lack of error detection...

The Locksmith could get the disks that Copy ][ Plus couldn't, and
vice versa.  I remember the Disk Muncher, too.  Zoooom!
 
> I always favored Beagle Bros products myself. Still have my "Apple 
> Colors/ASCII Values" posted behind me (dated 6/84), and above it is 
> their "6502 Instructions" where I've penned in interesting 65C02 
> enhancements.

I never had either of those, but for years my favorite poster was
the Beagle Bros. version of what not to do to your floppy disks:

http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/tmp/beagle.jpg

Greg
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