Hi all
I'm looking at bidding on a copy of Mathematica 2.0.2 on UK eBay for NeXT with license and original disks. I think its safe to say it will have been installed on a machine in the past, so looking at some old threads on this great forum, it seems the general consensus is that the original install would have written back to the disks the host machines MAC address, thereby stopping the install from working on a subsequent machine.
I also note there is a possible workaround with spoofing the MAC address of the original machine to fool the s/w to load.
So my question is whats the likelihood of figuring out the original MAC if the original hardware isnt available?
Im assuming this data will have been encrypted when written to the floppy.
Thoughts ?
I remember a different procedure, but i can be wrong.
The disk should finish the installation. However In order to run the app an activation code should be provided by Wolfram.
In the first run the app create an ID linked to the particular machine, you should send this ID to wolfram in order to get an activation key. But i doubt wolfram will provide a key for an unsupported platform.
Are you sure the install disk are rewritten and linked to the machine?
See this post
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2358&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Hmm, I see.
Its preety unlikely that the s/w has never been used and even if it hasn't I'm certain Wolfram are not able to issue keys for vintage apps such as this.
Thanks for the advice :)
Quote from: "lebowski"Hmm, I see.
Its preety unlikely that the s/w has never been used and even if it hasn't I'm certain Wolfram are not able to issue keys for vintage apps such as this.
Thanks for the advice :)
heh.. actually they did just that for me. they issued a new key based on my hostid for a license I bought second hand -- even called the previous license holder. this was only a year or two back. they took it all very seriously, actually. wouldn't give me an upgrade to 3.0 tho.
blackholeinc has a blurb about wolfram giving out free 3.0 licenses.. may wanna check that out.
There is a very real chance the license generators you find on bittorrent sites will generate a valid license.
Grab a recent mathematica with license gen from bittorrent and give it a try on that old copy. Please let us know if it works. I'd very much like to use mma 2.0 on next again.