> hardware product as well, the Copy II PC Option Board, which intercepted data from the floppy drive directly (much as a modern flux capture device does). Th

> hardware product as well, the Copy II PC Option Board, which intercepted data from the floppy drive directly (much as a modern flux capture device does). This allowed duplication of many copy-protection methods that software products couldn't handle. It was relatively inexpensive as well. Those were so much fun. I wrote disks for software we distributed; we never had formal "copy protection" but the disks were signed. When folks called in and support asked them to read their serial number off the help screen it would say "copy". standard floppy drives with a small hack using this board and some lightly hacked demo thing to write a "bad" sector with the brand after the main duplication, as i recall.