ward christensen

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Ward Christensen

   <person> The inventor of {XMODEM} and of the {BBS}.  Ward did
   physics in college and programmed {mainframes} for {IBM}.

   Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on
   1978-02-16 in Chicago.  It ran on an {S-100} computer with 64k
   {RAM} and two single-sided 8" 250kB {diskettes}.

   Freeware Hall of Fame
   (http://freewarehof.org/ward.html).

   (2005-09-20)