I have a dongle here from an obsolete piece of 3M software. The enclosure
open quite easily, but it looks like this one has some sort of ASIC in
it. The chip inside is labelled "Aladdin", and there is a label on the
outside that says MemoHASP-1. Some web serching later, I found
http://www.hasp.com/. For this model, you can download some rudimentary
software to see if it works. I don't know if Autocad used the same kind.

BTW: HASP is an acronym for "Hardware Against Software Piracy". Pretty
clever.




On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, John Walshe wrote:

> Hi folks,
>     I've just found an AutoCAD R13 dongle in the bottom of a box I got at a
> factory clearout sale. It's one of those Rainbow Sentinel devices and I
> can't tell what device is in it 'cos its a globbed die(it could be a pic ?)
>
> Anyone got and ideas as to how it works? Can I read/write it to and use it
> to protect any of my own software?
> I did a web trawl (a short one!) but came up blank. Has anyone got any info
> on these things?
> Best regards
> John
>
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