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Personal Documents of Dubious Historical Interest
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I'm kicking off this new section of the site with a couple of documents I created in 1984, detailing one of my early
adventures in PC debugging: decoding and disabling [dBASE III Copy-Protection](#dbase-iii-copy-protection).

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### dBASE III Copy-Protection

* [dBASE III Debugging Notes](/pubs/personal/1984-09-16--DBASE_III_DEBUG.pdf)
* [dBASE III Patching Procedure](/pubs/personal/1984-09-25--DBASE_III_PATCH.pdf)

NOTE: Copies of the [dBASE III](/disks/pcx86/apps/other/dbase3/1.0/) disks can be found in our [IBM PC Disk Library](/disks/pcx86/).

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*Last Update: Aug 11, 2017*