Rob Swindell (digital man)

Synchronet BBS Software Author, Sysop of Vertrauen, Husband, Father, Programmer, Drummer

• First computer: Commodore VIC-20¹⁾, no modem or disk drive, 1981
• First BBS experience: Delightful Dialer on an Apple II+²⁾ connecting to mostly GBBS³⁾, 1982
• First Sysop experiences: Telix Host script, then WWIV on a 10MHz PC-XT clone, 1988
• Alias was inspired by the Rush song of the same name from the Signals album of 1982
  • In-use on public Bulletin Board Systems by me since 1982
  • Lower-case spelling inspired by the DEC logo
• Running Synchronet BBS software since July 17, 1991
• Played drums on rock album (Weedpuller) for sale on Amazon, iTunes, also streaming on Spotify
• Patent author (4 times)
• Internet draft author (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-swindell-ptsc-hdr-00)

• Blog
• Facebook Profile
• YouTube Channel
• SoundCloud page
• Weedpuller Personal Page (from the 90s)

• Playing, teaching, recording/mixing/producing drums and other instruments
• Computer programming (mostly in C/C++ and JavaScript)
• Karaoke (performing and jockeying)
• Listening to music and going to concerts
• Watching Netflix, Plex, Angels Baseball
• Making videos (For Synchronet Sysops)
• Podcasting
• Xbox-Live (gamertag: digitlman)
• HAM operator: WX6YYZ
• Weather station operator

• Weedpuller
• The Loons
• Dresden (a.k.a. Threshold, a.k.a. Vertrauen)

• Rush
• Queensryche
• Iron Maiden
• Black Sabbath
• Foo Fighters
• Green Day
• NOFX
• Pink Floyd