Table of Contents
Trivia
Other Pages
Hobbies
Bands Played-In / Recorded-With
Favorite Bands
Neil Peart and I at least have *something* in common
Rob Swindell (digital man)
Synchronet
BBS
Software Author,
Sysop
of
Vertrauen
, Husband, Father, Programmer, Drummer
Trivia
First computer:
Commodore VIC-20
1)
, no modem or disk drive, 1981
First
BBS
experience: Delightful Dialer on an
Apple II+
2)
connecting to mostly
GBBS
3)
, 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
)
Other Pages
Blog
Facebook Profile
YouTube Channel
SoundCloud page
Weedpuller Personal Page
(from the 90s)
Hobbies
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
Bands Played-In / Recorded-With
Weedpuller
The Loons
Dresden (a.k.a. Threshold, a.k.a. Vertrauen)
Favorite Bands
Rush
Queensryche
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Foo Fighters
Green Day
NOFX
Pink Floyd
Neil Peart and I at least have *something* in common
Sysop
,
Developer
,
Drummer
1)
Christmas gift from Dad
2)
Mike's computer
3)
e.g. The Beast's Domain