2026-06-26 14:10 UTC
The routine to launch the separate bit copy program is named MIKE, presumably after Michael Brown, the founder of Central Point Software and the original author of the bit copy program.
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@a2_4am@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 14:16
But as with many things, the real gold is in the comments. By 1989, Copy II Plus was a world-class, mature product that was used everywhere and therefore had to deal with everything. Hardware bugs, software bugs, cosmic rays, you name it. One common problem on the Apple II was hardware drivers using addresses in main memory for their own purposes, sometimes even assuming their values were persistent. Hilarity did not ensue.