Unidentified Aldaddin Hardlock

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Ok, need to tap into the collective tech genius here.

I'm holding in my hand a paprallel-port based Aladdin Hardlock "key" for a computer.
However I have no idea what software it is related to.
All I know is, my father-in-law had it on an old PC he had in his office, which he recently gave away to anotehr family member. I happened to notice it during teh exchange, asked, and he was like, "i've never seen that before".
He's also 65 and completely PC clueless.

Is there any way to know/find out what it goes to? I mean typically tehset hings are only used w/ pretty high-end, expensive, or specialized s/w. We use them w/ some of our lab s/w that's $700 per "key".

Did Auto Cad or any kind of drafting/sketching s/w use these? He's an architect, but old-school and dosn't to AC... but has had demo versions, and probably even a student or tempo version a few times when he was trying to learn (which he gave up).

All I can tell is, one side has a little clear circle, under it is "Hardlock E-Y-E", then AAYW8. Back just has Aladdin's address.
 
No idea what software it is for but they used to be pretty common. You don't see them used as much anymore and then they are usually USB.
 
a demo wouldnt of come with a HASP i dont believe and if it did, it would be time based and expired. and its parrallel based so whatever it was for is probably so outdated that its completly useless anyway.


a print kit on a digital canon copier is a $1500 hasp key. 10 cents worth of plastic and silicon!!

Lol, more importantly, if the computer is gone....the key is worthless no matter what it goes too. usually they are serialized and married to an induvidual piece of software. His hasp isnt going to work on another computer more than likely unless the program was bought to support an entire office or network of people.
 
BigRedB2 said:
Lol, more importantly, if the computer is gone....the key is worthless no matter what it goes too. usually they are serialized and married to an induvidual piece of software. His hasp isnt going to work on another computer more than likely unless the program was bought to support an entire office or network of people.
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ADAIK, he's never owned anything THAT specialized or pricy.
My guess is it would be something more generally distributed, teh key is just to avoid copying/distribution.

for example, we use this lab software called "E-Prime".
From them you buy a license (@$700 each). Now, the software is freely downloadable, and in fact you can run it several times w/o a key. You just have to have the key to be able to modify the programs created by the primary E-Prime program.
E.g., they don't care how many computers the s/w is on, you just have to have key in order to use it at that moment.
 
perhaps some face time in the program files of the old computer would help out some.
 
BigRedB2 said:
perhaps some face time in the program files of the old computer would help out some.
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Ergh.
Aparently FIW had the thing wiped clean before passing it on. Dead end.
 
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