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Does anyone have any idea how this might have "called home" in the early '80s? I mean, that doesn't seem possible. My best guess is that some later version of
by mod 10y ago
Does anyone have any idea how this might have "called home" in the early '80s?
I mean, that doesn't seem possible.
My best guess is that some later version of the software was updated to include phoning home.
- kbouck 10y agoMaybe it literally phoned home... over a 300 baud modem.
- greenyoda 10y agoI suppose it could have literally "called home" by using a modem to dial a phone number and connect to a dial-up modem on the authorization server. Since it only does this "every few months", that wouldn't be a prohibitively expensive form of communication.
- subinsebastien 10y agoThe OP explains in a later comment that, he used a floppy-disk based licensing system in the early days of this software.
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- stevoski 10y agoI worked on a team in 1993 that made point of sale software that "phoned home" and required customers to purchase a modem with the software. We were no cutting edge software company, so I can easily imagine others doing this a few years earlier.