What's so special about sentinal pro dongle

[Jules Richardson]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 13:46 -0500, John Foust wrote:
> At 01:33 PM 4/25/2005, Mike wrote:
> >I am starting to get curious.   Out of all my machines the one I get the most 
> >requests for is the sentinal pro dongle. Is there a pending patent case?
> >Is the software that required these still in use or demand?
> 
> Maybe someone hoping they'll work on some copy-protected program
> they own or want to run.

Autodesk stuff in particular used to use them and even their old apps
are still pretty useful, so yep, that was my first thought too. 

I think they were keyed to specific media, so not much use except with a
machine with the software installed. 

cheers

Jules