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- From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Macintosh Doggles...
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:47:50 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Office of the President
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- In article <pcw.727726325@digex>, pcw@access.digex.com (Peter Wayner)
- wrote:
- >
- > Does anyone know the location of a Macintosh Doggle
- > Manufacturer? (Doggles are the little do-hickeys that
- > you connect to the computer to prevent piracy. The
- > software polls the do-hickeys every once and a bit
- > to see if it is still there.) ADB bus doggles would
- > be better.
- >
- > -Peter
-
- I believe they are "dongles". I hate them. We don't buy products that have
- them. Despite all the claims to the contrary, our experience has been that
- once you get past one, they end up conflicting in mysterious ways.
-
- On the subject of ADB dongles, I believe there is a fairly low limit to the
- number of ADB devices that can be attached (power requirements?). Perhaps
- someone reading this can educate me further, but I remember reading
- concerns that ADB dongles might cause problems with the ADB bus in some
- way.
- -----------
- Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
- All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
- University wanted me to speak for it.
-