About Gilmore's letter on IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives

[Bill Stewart]

At 04:04 PM 12/25/00 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote:
>Same was true of DEC workstations. The service tech would switch the proms.
>The board had it's own serial number label on the board so they could still
>keep track of it.

As opposed to DEC VAXen, where the tech would reformat the disks,
whether they needed them or not, and occasionally replace the bad
disk controller with another bad disk controller :-)


				Thanks! 
					Bill
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