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 (https://freewarehof.org/ward.html).
(2005-09-20)