Re: floppy capacity question

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From: madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Erick Dietrich)
Subject: Re: floppy capacity question
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 11:43:12 -0400

In article <4s444t$lgk@pith.uoregon.edu>, nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu
(Neil
Parker) wrote:

> 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."

Strange. I have a copy of a disk, a diags disk, and it checks the logic
in
][ and ][ plus machines.  It's old, no up and down arrows.  It also says
that you aren't supposed to have it, that its for Apple peoples only. 
On
that disk, a DOS 3.2 disk, there is a "FishHead".  Wonder....


Anyone interested in this disk?  I guess I should make an image before
it
disintigrates.

-Erick


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