Fred Fish

Fred Fish (November 4, 1952 – April 20, 2007) was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of freeware disks for the Amiga.

Fish also initiated the "GeekGadgets" project, a GNU standard environment for AmigaOS and BeOS.

[1]The Fish Disks were distributed at computer stores and Amiga enthusiast clubs.

Contributors submitted applications and source code and the best of these each month were assembled and released as a diskette.

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.

Image taken at the first Amiga show in Cologne (1989, Köln). Front row from left to right, Matt Dillon and Fred Fish . Back row from the left: Oliver Wagner and Mick Hohmann .
A classic 3½ inch floppy, rotated 45 degrees to the right, with a fin on the left and bubbles on the right, giving the overall appearance of a tropical fish.
The custom fish-shaped icon used for the Amiga Library Disks from number 75 onwards.