Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Technology: Software key demonstration...

Ever wonder how things used to be years before Microsoft Windows. Imagine for a moment you were a software vendor back in the days of MS-DOS. What do you do to protect company information so that your competitors could not copy your intellectual property?

In response to these questions, what is called today a software key was invented. This is the only photo of such software available anywhere....

The picture was taken on October 4, 1990, as the timestamp indicates, an RS-232C male dongle was plugged into a female RS-232C located on the back of the Desktop computer. Thus, activating and protecting the software from being pirated.



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