My Handle(s) Origins

I never did think about the origins of these that much as I’ve been using them a while (>20 years).  Here’s where they came from.  

• DCal – My name is Drew Calvert Dawson – I was trying to come up with a name I could put on a personalized license plate for a motorcycle I bought in 1988 (650 Yamaha Turbo http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1983-yamaha-xj-650-seca-turbo.htm painted Red) in CA.  I had to settle on DCal1 as what I wanted was already taken.
• DrDOS – I worked with computers and people at a law firm before it became as commonplace as it is today where it seems that everyone under the age of 30 can work on them, right?  (All orientals can speak either Japanese or Chinese and know martial arts!)  Since DOS stands for Disk Operating System and my last name sounded like that, folks at work gave me that name whenever I would make a house call to work on theirs.

Now you know why my emails are signed that way.