On April 22, Brian Chase wrote: Oddly enough (have to toot my own horn here) when I was in my late teens/early wenties, I worked for a tiny (floated between 2-5 employees) desktop publishing and database application development firm called Princeton Desktop Systems, Inc., now based in Trenton, NJ. (see http://www.billtrak.com for what they're doing now) When I was with them, this company did everything from building custom PeeCees (the '386 had just come out) to refilling toner cartridges to producing camera-ready copy for newsletters and such. This company was founded by, and is owned & operated by, Gerald J. Clancy, Jr., the guy who chaired the IEEE 802.3 committee. A funny and cantakerous fellow, he's an absolutely brilliant programmer. Earlier in life Jerry was one of the principal developers of OS/360, and also spent some early time at Honeywell. I learned a tremendous amount from him during the 3 or so years I worked there. His "old school" computer science background affords him a depth of understanding of algorithms and data structures that no WhizBangCollegeBoyVisualBasic weenie could ever hope to achieve today. I count myself as extremly lucky for having had a mentor of such caliber. -Dave McGuire