open it with notepad for check that the version to open the file is mathcad 12 (and mcd is the extension for this version).
Yes, you are right. That's why it will not open even in my MC11, which does not have the malicious bug installed. Oh well. Another great conspiracy theory goes down in flames!
I still think the moon landings were faked though 
But the reason for posting was to remember the very nice images from the old versions, like the splash screen attached: it's art!
Yes, now I see it again I remember that splash screen. I think version 7 was quite colorful too, but I'm not sure after that.
Mathcad 8 had a huge orange ball.
But my favorite was the original StudyWorks box, featuring a Harold Lloyd look-alike.
Mona
Here's the splash screen from the setup:
I don't know if it's identical to the main MC8 splash screen, but it's probably at least close.
I got that from the MC8 CD. I also have the MC2001 CD, but I couldn't find a setup bitmap on that one 
>Jean,
We don't spend our time devising malicious bugs for users. If you have a problem with reading files from this forum, that no one else has reported, then you need to check your software and your system<
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I would like to trust you Mona, but I first and only trust the facts.
Simple: solve the equation of the bug .
Sure, no one else who had spent $ to PTC have their multi millions licenses working and not carrying the bug back. Assume it toke me 10 observations of the phenomenon and the "one else" collaborate 1/100 of what I do, they only have a fraction of the phenomenon. Have you ever though that the way PTC makes so difficult to license and activate their purchase, easy to code 14 [per say] to be incompatible "saved as 11" and be open by non PTC license owner. If you can't check by yourself, how can you trust and report what you are told. Think again how easy to code the "14 save as 11" to save correctly to those users owing a PTC license but not for those who don't have a PTC license. If that is PTC philosophy: fine, but you don't have to denied it otherwise. An inadvertent bug or consequence of bad coding: I could have taken at the very early stage of my report as acknowledged and logged, but that' not the case. It mightbe worth checking that "facebook" server for any redundant infection. I support that last presumption from Dan the other week when he got surprised about the community OFF every day between exact 21:00 ... 24:00. Did PTC got a cheaper price on that restriction ? How come Dan was not aware. In my opinion, at PTC there are lot many victims of the "illuminati". I want to make clear that whatever, I will continue doing my best to collaborate but will remain of no commerce and can't change the facts just to please. As it looks from many other kind of reports, the relationship between PTC and Mathcaders is not harmonious.
Jean
Think again how easy to code the "14 save as 11" to save correctly to those users owing a PTC license but not for those who don't have a PTC license.
Almost impossible I would think. You are proposing that Mathcad 14 can write a file that can be read by 11 if the user has a Mathcad 14 license, but not otherwise. But when Mathcad 11 was written Mathcad 14 wasn't even a twinkle in someone's eye. When Mathcad 11 was written nobody even knew that Mathcad 14 would be a PTC product! Mathcad 11 has no code or ability to even look for Mathcad 14 or a Mathcad 14 license, let alone cripple the reading of files depending on what it finds! Or are you proposing that somehow your copy of 11 has been "infected" by PTC and is different to the original version? If you are, that is one heck of an accusation!
Or perhaps it is the Illuminati! Maybe they have been in control of Mathcad for years, and added the "malicious bug" code to version 11 when it was written, knowing that PTC would buy Mathcad, because they had also infiltrated PTC at the highest levels before Mathcad 11 was written! Maybe this is part of the plot to take over the Worlds software!
Richard Jackson wrote:
Think again how easy to code the "14 save as 11" to save correctly to those users owing a PTC license but not for those who don't have a PTC license.Almost impossible I would think. You are proposing that Mathcad 14 can write a file that can be read by 11 if the user has a Mathcad 14 license, but not otherwise. But when Mathcad 11 was written Mathcad 14 wasn't even a twinkle in someone's eye. When Mathcad 11 was written nobody even knew that Mathcad 14 would be a PTC product! Mathcad 11 has no code or ability to even look for Mathcad 14 or a Mathcad 14 license, let alone cripple the reading of files depending on what it finds! Or are you proposing that somehow your copy of 11 has been "infected" by PTC and is different to the original version? If you are, that is one heck of an accusation!
Or perhaps it is the Illuminati! Maybe they have been in control of Mathcad for years, and added the "malicious bug" code to version 11 when it was written, knowing that PTC would buy Mathcad, because they had also infiltrated PTC at the highest levels before Mathcad 11 was written! Maybe this is part of the plot to take over the Worlds software!
Richard,
That's some theory/imagination.
Mike
YES Sir ! It corroborates the fact that a downloaded sheet from this communities re-opens my Mathcad even if Mathcad is already opened. It checks my part number, does not find the complementary PTC license and then scrap the downloaded version. And that is very vicious and malicious because the downloaded sheet does not open as another Mathcad session. [Jean]
That is not possible. The zip file or Mathcad file you download is just a chunk of dead data. It can't do anything. The forums do not access your PC or open Mathcad. Your copy of Windows opens Mathcad when it sees the Mathcad file extension. The only way the forums could access your PC is if the download was accomplished via some sort of script (for example a Java script) rather than just a direct file download, and that is not the case. Even if that were the case there is a limit to what a Java script can do, and unless your security settings are set ridiculously low it would not be able to poke around your PC looking for license files.
It is easy enough to put this to bed once and for all though. You have my email address. Email me one of these files, because if it was corrupted by the PlanetPTC download then there is obviously no way my PC can fix it. To be absolutely sure though, tell me the exact number of bytes in the file and I'll make sure my PC doesn't surreptitiously change it. Then I'll tell you if I can open it in version 11.
Of course, I could be a member of the Illuminati, and just lie to you about whether or not I can open it!
You are right! They are in mulitple DLLs, in both Mathcad 11 and Mathcad 13! It's them! The Illuminati! They are everywhere! We are doomed I tell you, Dooomed!!! Gaaaaagh....!!
