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FORM 3
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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 16 (a) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934,
SECTION 17 (a) OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 1935 OR
SECTION 30 (f) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Requiring 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Statement
(Month/Day/Year)
Lidsky Paul F. 8/10/98 Datalink Corporation - DTLK
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 3. IRS or Social Security Relationship of Reporting 5. If Amendment,
Number of Reporting Person to Issuer Date of Original
Person (Voluntary) (Month/Day/Year)
X Director 10% Owner
c/o ONE LINK Communications, Inc. --- --- -----------------------
10340 Viking Drive, Suite 150 6. Individual or
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(Street) --- title below) --- below) Filing (Check
Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One
--- Reporting Person
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Form filed by
--- More than One
Reporting Person
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
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(City) (State) (Zip)
TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect
Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Indirect (I) Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 5)
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* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see instruction 5(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
(Print or Type Responses)
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date 3. Title and Amount of 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Exercisable and Securities Underlying sion or ship Beneficial Ownership
Expiration Date Derivative Security Exercise Form of (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ (Instr. 4) Price of Deriv-
Year) Deri- ative
vative Security:
Security Direct
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Date Expira- Amount or Indirect (I)
Exercis- tion Title Number (Instr. 5)
able Date of Shares
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Employee Stock Option (right * * Common Stock 6,000 ** D
to buy)
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Explanation of Responses:
*Estimated: Actual date exercisable is date of initial closing of initial public offering. Option is exercisable for ten years after
such date.
**At the initial public offering price.
/s/ PAUL F. LIDSKY 8/10/98
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***Signature of Reporting Person Date
Paul F. Lidsky
***Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient,
See Instruction 6 for procedure.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints either of Greg R. Meland or Robert D. DeVere to be the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer, director or principal
shareholder of Datalink Corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3,
4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally
required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the
documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's
discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 10th day of August, 1998.
/s/ Paul F. Lidsky
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Paul F. Lidsky
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