Re: Copy protection schemes

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From: Henry Gray
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00

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The serial numbers of disks are stored in their boot sector. If you read the
boot sector of the floppy disk (which you can do via a DOS or BIOS
interrupt - I forget which) then you can read the serial number of the disk.

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From: "Henry Gray" <henry.gray@REMOVE_THIS.ste0455.wins.icl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Copy protection schemes
Date: 1998/09/30
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