I think you're correct, a lot of the earliest cracks are essentially undocumented. But in later times there was a good community of cracking software for PCs,

I think you're correct, a lot of the earliest cracks are essentially undocumented. But in later times there was a good community of cracking software for PCs, and those notes continue to live on despite the unfortunate death of the curator/collector, +fravia. Here's a decent mirror, for example: https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/academy.htm https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/academy.ht... At one point I used wget --mirror to download the whole site, and that was back in the early 90s.