Ivan Iwannado
Entrepreneur, owner of a successful small business, and would-be computer expert. Ivan Iwannado became interested in computers as soon as he saw the possibilities. Unfortunately, he's been trying to catch up with technology ever since. Ivan always knows what he wants to do, it's just sometimes a bit tricky finding out how to do it. What's worse it that just when Ivan thinks he's worked out what's going on, the swines go and change the rules, and invent something newer and even more exciting. Consequently, Ivan has spent the last ten years being generally mystified about what he should be doing, and what the best way is to do it.
In his quest for computer knowledge, he is assisted (with various degrees of willingness and good grace) by his family, the workers at Iwannado Trading Ltd, and of course, his friend Nigel Knowitall. Ivan's hobbies are goldfish (see Jaws), dabbling in the stock market, and driving all his friends and relatives mad with his desire to know not just what to do, but how to do it, why things are that way, and what the alternatives are.