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Ron Bieber was involved with the creation and marketing of
SmartDOS, an alternative DOS that was bundled with disk drives from
Rana and Astra, and also sold by Sears stores. SmartDOS'swas the
first disk operating system to be "Density Smart" — automatically
changing between the disk drive's density modes depending on the
disk used.

This interview took place on March 4 2015.

Teaser quotes:

"So I decided that instead of trying to sell the program, I want to
be paid for every single floppy disk drive that a manufacturer
makes."

"It was designed for sort of a moment in time, and the goal was not
to keep evolving it as new hardware became available. It was to
fulfill the need at that time."