[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary

for the "unwashed masses", cbbs was like a blog, and revolutionary. and something they can relate to people send photos on emails, but file transfer with xmodem was only meaningful for computer nerds. business did file transfer more like faxing. specialized devices called each other, maybe even manually answered, and used dedicated protocols for those devices. <pre>--Carey</pre>