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Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died Date: 16 Oct 2024 00:50:47 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 11 Message-ID: <ven2l7$ce7$1@panix2.panix.com> References: <vek9rd$1co97$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="21667"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: >Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the first computer-based Bulletin >Board System, and creator of XMODEM, the first file-transfer protocol >designed to work over noisy phone lines (both in the late 1970s), has >passed away at the age of 78. Oh no! First Irv Hoff and now Ward! --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."