Looking for Radius Rocket software <ahem> key...

[Teo Zenios]

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From: "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:59 AM
Subject: Looking for Radius Rocket software <ahem> key...


>I picked up a Radius "Stage II" Rocket, which appears to be a rather nifty 
>"accelerator" of sorts which is more or less a second 68040 mac on a nubus 
>card.
> I've found the necessary software to drive it, RocketShare 1.3.1, but it 
> wants a serial number from me before it'll start up... I don't have the 
> original software disks, but I'd like to think owning the physical card 
> would grant me rights to it, since they were only sold together.  Anyone 
> out there have a serial for this they can share?
>
> (Why would software that requires possession of a $3500 card in order to 
> do anything require a serial number? Gah...)
>
> Thanks,
> Josh

The original Rockets were shipped with Rocketware, that software took over 
the machine like a normal accelerator would. When Radius came out with the 
Stage 2 Rocket they only let you use RocketShare which setup the addon as a 
second computer with its own OS running on a virtual HD (you could have as 
many running as you had rockets installed).

They sold Rocketshare to the people who owned the original Rockets as well. 
I at one time had 2 040/25 rockets running on a IIfx for kicks (since taken 
out). Basically they didn't want the old users to pirate RocketShare so they 
did the serial number thing. Its all about money.