Fred Fish | |
|---|---|
 Fred Fish, Jason Compton, andDave Haynie in 1995 | |
| Born | (1952-11-04)November 4, 1952 |
| Died | April 20, 2007(2007-04-20) (aged 54) |
| Known for | Fish Disks |
| Spouse | Michelle Fish (née Norman) |
Fred Fish (November 4, 1952 – April 20, 2007) was acomputer programmer notable for work on theGNU Debugger and his series offreeware disks for theAmiga.
Fish worked forCygnus Solutions in the 1990s before leaving forBe Inc. in 1998.[1]
In 1978, he self-publishedUser Survival Guide for TI-58/59 Master Library.[2] It was advertised in enthusiast newsletters covering theTI-59 programmable calculator. Fish also initiated the "GeekGadgets" project, a GNU standard environment forAmigaOS andBeOS.
Fred Fish was married to Michelle Fish (née Norman) at the time of his death. He died of aheart attack[3] at his home in Idaho on Friday, April 20, 2007.
TheAmiga Library Disks – colloquially referred to asFish Disks (a term coined byPerry Kivolowitz at a Jersey Amiga User Group meeting) – had a reach that included most all Amiga users in the world.[4] Fish would distribute his disks around the world in time for regional and local user group meetings, which in turn duplicated them for local distribution. Typically, only the cost of materials changed hands. The Fish Disk series ran from 1986 to 1994. In it, one can chart the growing sophistication of Amiga software and see the emergence of many software trends.[1]
The Fish Disks were distributed at computer stores and Amiga enthusiast clubs. Contributors submitted applications andsource code and the best of these each month were assembled and released as adiskette. Since the Internet was not yet in popular usage outside military and university circles, this was a primary way for enthusiasts to share work and ideas.[5]
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