Re: floppy capacity question

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <4s3u84$23@agate.xara.net> rtk@scotborders.co.uk writes:
>[...]
>BTW, what does FID mean?

According to the DOS manual and FID's own menu screen, it means "FIle
Developer."

The Apple II history file has a much more entertaining story about the
origin of the name "FID".  Apparently, when the program was first written,
it was called "Fishhead".  But Apple's marketing people didn't like that,
so they told the programmers to give it a different name.  When the renamed
program was delivered, the marketing people asked what "FID" meant, and
were told "FIle Developer," but the story has it that it really stands for
"Fishhead In Disguise."

               - Neil Parker
-- 
Neil Parker                       | No cute quote, no cute ASCII art, no cute
nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu         | disclaimer, no deposit, no return....
nparker@cie.uoregon.edu           | (This space intentionally left blank:
http://cie-2.uoregon.edu/~nparker |                                           )