15 Oct
2024
15 Oct
'24
12:20 a.m.
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(a)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 cisin(a)xenosoft.com