"Market" for old macs?

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I'm desperately trying to remember some details here..wasn't there a bit of
> a flap with copy-protected Lotus 123 and one of IBM"s newer machines?
> Maybe it was the PS/2 introduction, but that seems too late to me--it might
> have been the PC-AT.  At any rate, IBM found themselves in the position of
> having to unofficially recommend one of the copy protection defeating
> products to customers in order to get 123 to run on their new systems.
> Anyone remember the exact details?  It's too fuzzy in my memory...

possibly:
IBM provided a cable to transfer files/programs from 5.25" based PCs over
to 3.5" PS/2s.  Many copy-protected programs would have to be unprotected
to be able to get the resulting 3.5" copy to work.