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04-21-2011 , 05:47 PM

#51

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Originally Posted by kyleb

Dongles are common in my side business; most of the high-end motion capture software requires them.

Some point of sale systems too.

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04-21-2011 , 06:04 PM

#52

clowntable

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Originally Posted by Neil S

Dongles. Heh. That's a Remember When in itself.

AFAIK they exist today for high priced music software and video editing and related fields

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04-21-2011 , 08:42 PM

#53

Neil S

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I'm surprised. The dumb thing about Dongles today is that they'll only inconvenience the honest folk.

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04-21-2011 , 09:46 PM

#54

Johnny Douglas

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Originally Posted by Neil S

I'm surprised. The dumb thing about Dongles today is that they'll only inconvenience the honest folk.

Basically yeah. Being I haven't come across one in years, I'm assuming they're currently less interested in using them for $400-$500 pieces of software than they used to be.

I do love Apple's no copyright protection policy on everything save for Logic/Final Cut. Not treating me like a thief has probably caused me to buy more of their stuff when given the choice.

Worse than dongles:

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04-21-2011 , 10:39 PM

#55

jukofyork

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Anybody remember Lenslok?

Man did it suck...

Juk

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04-21-2011 , 11:06 PM

#56

Johnny Douglas

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Originally Posted by jukofyork

Anybody remember Lenslok?

Man did it suck...

Juk

Thankfully no, but it's pretty interesting. Here's the wikipedia link.

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04-22-2011 , 11:32 AM

#57

wellju

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I want one so bad.

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04-22-2011 , 01:08 PM

#58

Johnny Douglas

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Originally Posted by wellju

I want one so bad.

Pretty dope!

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04-23-2011 , 06:50 PM

#59

OrangeCat

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My first computer. Paid around 3K for it in the mid 80's. 64K ram, 20 meg hard drive, 640x480 monochrome screen. Pretty hot setup at the time. First software I bought for it was the Lattice C compiler.

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04-24-2011 , 01:11 AM

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Johnny Douglas

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Originally Posted by OrangeCat

First software I bought for it was the Lattice C compiler.

How much? What did you do with it?

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04-24-2011 , 03:54 AM

#61

loK2thabrain

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Originally Posted by TheIrishThug

That looks just like the first computer we had. I wasn't big on computers then, so I couldn't tell you for sure. But I logged many an hour playing Wheel of Fortune and Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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04-24-2011 , 10:11 AM

#62

OrangeCat

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Originally Posted by Johnny Douglas

How much? What did you do with it?

A compiler cost a few hundred dollars and there were no viable open source options at the time. I bought some books and taught myself. Found a job doing C programming. Been doing it ever since though nowadays it is C++ and C#.