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Bodies Behind the BBS: Don Daniels ...................... 10
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An Introduction of Don Daniels (107/210)
Don Daniels was last year's IFNA President, thus his name should be the FidoNet equivalent of a "household word". (A "network word"?A "system word"?A "dirty word"?) In spite of what some might think, neither "Don" nor "Daniels" is a four-letter word.
Don started Fido 86 at Grumman Data Systems in October, 1984.He selected Fido software because of the potential benefits of the network support for a company distributed in so many locations. The Grumman system is still running, plus two at Don's home.
Then there's the train.Don commutes to New York City via the Long Island Railroad, and uses his laptop during those two hours each day to access his mail.He has written a utility named xOVER which he uses to keep straight the file attaches, special files, and two independent messages bases (one on the laptop and one on the home BBS).Don reports that his biggest fear is getting so involved in what he's doing that he works right past his stop.
Don's history in FidoNet began as an independent for quite a while, finally joining net 107 in 1986.He was NC for a year or so, during which time he operated as the Long Island Hub, a position he still maintains.After surviving last year's stint as President of IFNA, Don is still quite active in the organiza- tion as a Director and member of the Executive Committee.
The year as President took its toll on time for traditional sysop tasks, and everything else.Both of Don's BBS's have a general PC-DOS flavor, the IEEE LI one being slanted toward users in the IEEE community.Experimenting with a "life outside FidoNet", Don
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If we need a mascot for FidoNet, I'm happy to report that Don is the owner of a black lab, named (what else?) Fido.The other dog, a viszla named Rexx, is named after the IBM Real-time Executive Language.A nice touch.
Since leaving Grumman, Don has been an independent computer consultant, and he's presently on contract with the Jacob Javits Convention Center in NYC, providing technical support for their PC, Wang VS, and IBM mainframe systems.Having travelled a bit in his younger days -- circling the world twice while working overseas for seven years out a ten year span -- Don is currently
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