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THE ULTIMATE COPY PROTECTION 
 
As you are all aware there has been a continual battle between software pirate and software prTHE BARRY PATCH 
 
This month from the BARRY PATCH comes (l) THE ULTIMATE COPY PROTECTION and (2) LETTERS TO THE BARRY PATCH. 
 
THE ULTIMATE COPY PROTECTION 
 
As you are all aware there has been a continual battle between software pirate and software producer.  The software producers now going increasingly to copy protection. 
 
Well I have by chance stumbled onto the FINAL ULTIMATE COPY PROTECTION. 
 
AND SUPRISINGLY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE, it is nothing new but no one has thought of it as copy protection. 
 
The ULTIMATE COPY PROTECTION IS CP/M.  Which must stand for C(OPY)P(ROTECTED )/M(EDIA). 
 
What do I mean.  Well anyone who has gotten a CP/M program which has been crunched, squeezed, libraried, archived, sterilized, pasteurized and homogenized will know what I mean. 
 
You have the file, it is there.  But can you use it ??????  To use it you must now get many many other programs (probably each one of which also has been crunched, libraried, etc.) to use it. 
 
ONLY after you have uncrunched the file can you then unsqueeze it, which allows you to delibrary it, and then un (or is it de-) archive it, etc.  etc. etc. 
 
To me this is the ultimate in copy protection.  I know of a few pirates who DIED before they had completed the procedures necessary to get a file into a form from which they could actually use it. 
 
Actually I liked this article so well, I was going to crunch it, squeeze it, library it, archive it , pasteurize it, homogenize it, and finally upload it with xyzmodem protocol.  But I couldn't delibrary my crunched version of the unsqueezed archive file called CP/M Made Easy. 
 
Oh well, I guess I'll have to pay retail and buy the program if I really want it.  Besides the 6 months time I save will be well worth the retail price. 
 
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LETTERS TO THE BARRY PATCH: 
 
Dear Barry Patch: 

I am losing my husband not to another woman but to a computer.  Each evening when he comes home from work, he rapidly eats dinner and then goes immediately to his Adam Computer.  I do not see him again until bedtime and often I am asleep by the time he finally leaves his Adam Computer and goes to sleep. 
(Signed) Lonely and worried
 
 
Dear Lonely and worried: 
 
What you have described is not an uncommon problem.  It is found in almost 98% of all homes with Adam computers.  There are several things you might try: (l) buy an Adam computer for yourself and you will have much to occupy your time; (2) sign up for my $l,000.00 learn the Adam Computer by Mail Course which will give you a knowledge of Adam and a nice certificate suitable for framing.  Once you have completed my course you will be able to get to the computer first and spend hours &hours on it, thereby blocking your husband from using it and causing him to feel the same lonliness and isolation you now feel; (3) contact a software pirate, they can copy & duplicate anything; have them make a copy of your husband and you can stay with the copy while your husband is with the computer; (4) if you are really lonely and attractive, send a photo and your phone number.  I have not mentioned the obvious solution of re-wiring the computer to give your husband an electric shock each time he tries to use it as that was so simple & straightforward I was sure you had already tried it. 
 
ANYONE HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS OR ANY PROBLEM INVOLVING THE ADAM COMPUTER IS INVITED TO WRITE THE BARRY PATCH FOR ANOTHER FINE SOLUTION.
 
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