If that's the topic you were looking for, you may like this "Dave's Garage" episode, where a retired Microsoft engineer talks about implementing... Windows Activation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0
By F R A Hopgood, D A Duce, E V C Fielding, K Robinson, A S Williams. 29 April 1985. This is the Proceedings of the Alvey Workshop at Cosener's House, Abingdon that took place from 29 April 1985 until 1 May 1985. It was input into the planning for the MMI part of the Alvey Programme. The Proceedings were later published by Springer-Verlag in 1986.
I'm worse than you - when I came across that article, I spent a while wondering whether "ulathrin" was the name of a company, or some new metal alloy. Your comment is what made me realize I misread it.
I made BOTH of those mistakes. I thought someone working at the company Ultrahin leaned over and dropped a business card into the particle accelerator and ruined a million dollar experiment.
Read the first paragraph and it was really confusing. Still the same after reading it again.
Until I looked at the title. Oh, window activation is what we are actually talking about.