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Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:58 pm
by me239
Recently I was using the debug tool on XP to look through a floppy disk and when I got to 9000:30e0h I found something quite interesting. Somebody's name was printed right at 9000:30e2h
. The name read Andy Watson. I've been googling this person with no significant results. I know this is a random question, but it really puzzled me.
Re: Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:03 am
by xenos
Does this block belong to some file? Or have there been files on the floppy that were deleted (i.e. removed from the FAT - their data may still be present)? If this is the case, the origin of that file could give you a hint. I think this is the most reasonable.
If this is not the case: How did you obtain the floppy? How was it formatted? Maybe the developer of some formatting tool put his name an an easter egg into some unused sector.
Re: Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:21 am
by me239
This was a floppy image made by myself and formatted with XP in virtualbox
Re: Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:16 pm
by DavidBG
Hey, I didn't know Andy Watson was embedded secretly in MS$. Cool!
In regards to googling, my first hit was this forum, second try was the page berkus found.
David
Re: Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:33 pm
by me239
Actually I just tried on Win2K. It's also there in the exact same place!
Re: Who is Andy Watson?!?
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:27 pm
by smwikipedia
berkus wrote:berkus wrote:between January 2000
Win2k was released in February 2000, and he certainly was with M$ before that. Keep digging, what about Win98?
Ghost in Chips? Weird...
