Fred Fish
For someone who hadn't lived through that era to really understand how valuable a collection of shareware/freeware software on a disk was back then, you have to understand that it was an era of information scarcity.Nowadays you can easily get your hands on pretty much any software you want in a matter of seconds.  Back then, before most people were on the internet, your options were:- buy it from the local computer store- buy it from an ad in a computer magazine- type it in from a program listing in a magazine or a book- log in to a bulletin board system (BBS) and download it through your modem- trade some software at a user's group (where you could maybe pick up some Fred Fish disks)BBS's actually had pretty good collections of software, but the software was scattered over many of them, and Amiga BBS's were relatively rare compared to the legions of PC-centered BBS's.Fred Fish provided the valuable service of collecting all that freeware for you, so you didn't have to hunt around for it yourself -- all you had to do was get ahold of his disks (of which there were literally hundreds).