I regret not doing a section on the BBS in my book. I read today(Thanksgiving in Canada and certainly giving thanks to Christensen) that he and Suess created the CBBS in 1978. Christensen created the Xmodem a year earlier. Both enabled computers to communicate with each other. Christensen through humility, his openness to sharing, left us a legacy that some in today's computer world should best emulate. May the computer Gods forever care for Mr. Christensen..
Happy computing, Murray 🙂 On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 8:10 PM Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Does anyone have any information about visitation or a wake or funeral? > > > On 10/14/2024 6:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >> (C-Modem, J-Modem, N-Modem... I was waiting for them to run out of > >> letters). > > > > > > Speaking of alphabetic order, . . . > > > > 35 years ago, I was interviewed for a puff piece in the comdex daily > > "news". > > Among other amateur stupid questions, I was asked "Do you want FAME?" > > I replied, "Well, someday, I'd like to be recognized a little, and > > maybe even listed along with Ward Christensen." > > > > The very next year, the attendee roster of a conference I went to listed: > > ... > > Christensen, Ward > > Cisin, Fred > > Cisler, Steve > > ... > > > > That is much preferable to being listed with him in the subject line > > of this thread > > > > -- > > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com > >
