Who is Andy Watson?!?

[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.

[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.

[me239]

This was a floppy image made by myself and formatted with XP in virtualbox

[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

[me239]

Actually I just tried on Win2K. It's also there in the exact same place!

[smwikipedia]

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...