Real name: Bernd H.
Nickname: BANDIE
Alternate nicknames: BANDIE. , BANDIE<S and some other which are secret ;)
ICQ: 5644779

Date of birth: 29.7.1964
Age: count from date date of birth ;)  Dont know how to make this automatically in html! If you know, pls let me kow.
Weight: 73kg
Height: 1,83m

Where i was living before coming to IO: Berlin/Germany

Hobbies beside pod:                           Mountain biking,                           Computers,                            Badminton,                            Table Tennis,                            listening music, ...

About me: I don't smoke.
                  Working for a computing giant with three letters.
 

Favorite music: From Tchaikovsky (1812) to The Prodigy.
                        From Ska, over Reggae, to Deep House and Acid music and many more  ;-)

My PC (since 05/2003): Intel P4 2,4GHz, 512MB Corsair RAM, Board Asus P4PE,
            Graphic Winfast A380 Ultra w/ Gforce 5950, CDRW 12x,8x,32x Sony, EIZO F56 17"
My PC (since 06/2000): Intel P3 500, 128MB RAM, 16bit sound onboard, voodoo3000 AGP,
            CDR 32x TEAC, CDRW 12x,8x,32x Sony, EIZO F56 17"
My PC (until 06/2000): P200MMX, 98MB RAM, AWE64, Matrox Mill.4MB, Monster3D2 12MB,
            CDR 32x TEAC, USR Flash 56k, EIZO F56 17"

My ISP (since 08/2002): DSL :  with 30 online hours free per month.
             Charge: 29DM/month for online time + 39,89DM fixed per month for DSL
My ISPs (until 08/2002): knUUt featured by UUnet. Charge DEM 19.- per month with an online timeframe limitation
              from 8PM to 8AM weekdays and no time limits at the weekend.  Later Talkline for 1,48Pf./minute

Steering: I use a Radio Control (wireless) 40MHz (from my RC-CAR hobby,
that i did professional for 10 years!) connected via the 'Virtual RC'-game port adapter
(from Serpent Electronics) to COM1 port.

Playing POD since: 5/97
 

Favorite cars:		Least favorite cars:
			:-)

Favorite tracks: nothing especial....most of them ;)

Least favorite tracks: Babelweb

Favorite Opponents: All pilots which are funny and fair.

Pod claim to fame:
SINGLE results:
Winning the pod contest on LOON, 2nd on ROAD70 and at the other always under top 6,
winning Lambo's Italian Tournament (06/98),
being in top 20 in the official pod 'Hall of Fame' (when no lag costs me many points ;)
max. points was 2251! but this was lost by 6 weeks not being online in GS hehe..,
TEAM results:
raise to semi-finals in POD World Cup with Team GERBENE  (98),
winning the Pod championship in season 3 with the 'Scorpions'.
raise into final in PWC2 with Team Germany (99)
 

POD Team Memberships:	IO-Pirates	Scorpions
	Oct.97  to  Feb.98	since March 98