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Meanwhile, Bordynuik's reputation as a data recovery expert keeps his sideline cooking. Certain makes of tapes become sticky over the years, so Bordynuik bakes them in ovens of his own design. Once hardened, his custom tape transports can read them without mangling them, and Bordynuik copies their contents onto modern media. Given the results he brings and those he's shooting for, Niagara's business community might well ask: how does one bake more John Bordynuiks? The recipe is not conventional. It calls for, among other things, business experience at an early age, a passion for robotics, big iron and untold numbers of blown fuses. It also helps to have an IQ that has been measured at 170 (a genius level higher than Einstein's).

Born in Niagara 37 years ago, Bordynuik grew up in Fonthill. By the time he started kindergarten, he had attained fourth- grade literacy and at age seven and ravenous fMeanwhile, Bordynuik's reputation as a data recovery expert keeps his sideline cooking. Certain makes of tapes become sticky over the years, so Bordynuik bakes them in ovens of his own design. Once hardened, his custom tape transports can read them without mangling them, and Bordynuik copies their contents onto modern media. Given the results he brings and those he's shooting for, Niagara's business community might well ask: how does one bake more John Bordynuiks? The recipe is not conventional. It calls for, among other things, business experience at an early age, a passion for robotics, big iron and untold numbers of blown fuses. It also helps to have an IQ that has been measured at 170 (a genius level higher than Einstein's).

Born in Niagara 37 years ago, Bordynuik grew up in Fonthill. By the time he started kindergarten, he had attained fourth- grade literacy and at age seven and ravenous for reading, Bordynuik dived into the Electronics TAB Book Club. It was in the pages of the ambitiously titled How to Build Your Own Working Robot that he found his calling. However, he soon realized these contraptions, like "Buster" in his book, were expensive to build and called for many parts that weren't locally available. His father, John Sr., started talking to salvagers, local companies and anybody he knew with a lead to the kind of equipment his son longed foor reading, Bordynuik dived into the Electronics TAB Book Club. It was in the pages of the ambitiously titled How to Build Your Own Working Robot that he found his calling. However, he soon realized these contraptions, like "Buster" in his book, were expensive to build and called for many parts that weren't locally available. His father, John Sr., started talking to salvagers, local companies and anybody he knew with a lead to the kind of equipment his son longed for.
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Years later he would get his 15 minutes of fame. In 1989, he told his bank he found $1.2 million in his account that he didn't remember depositing. Bank officials in Toronto insisted there was no mistake and the money belonged to him, while staff at the local branch scrambled to reconcile more than a million missing dollars. Bordynuik stuck with his story, which soon made headlines across Canada. Papers proclaiming "Honest John Returns $1.2 million" caught the eyes of influential Ontario Legislature IT staff. However, they couldn't locate him before
he started first year physics at Brock University. They did find him at the end of first year, though, and lured him out of Niagara to work on provincial computers in Toronto. Bordynuik's initial system administration responsibilities soon evolved into research and development, all the while fielding calls from from government officials anxious to recover data from crashed hard drives.


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MARCH I APRIL 2007 I BUSINESS NIAGARA
http://www.johnbordynuik.com/BusinessNiagaraMagazine.pdf