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Ward Christensen was born on 23 October, 1945 in West Bend, Wisconsin, United States, is a Computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS. Discover Ward Christensen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 23 October 1945
Birthday 23 October
Birthplace West Bend, Wisconsin, United States
Nationality United States

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1945

Ward Christensen (born 1945 in West Bend, Wisconsin, United States) is the co-founder off the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online.

1968

Christensen worked at IBM from 1968 until his retirement in 2012.

His last position with IBM was field technical sales specialist.

1978

Christensen, along with partner Randy Suess, members of the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists' Exchange (CACHE), started development during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois, and officially established CBBS four weeks later, on February 16, 1978.

CACHE members frequently shared programs and had long been discussing some form of file transfer, and the two used the downtime during the blizzard to implement it.

Christensen was noted for building software tools for his needs.

He wrote a cassette-based operating system before floppies and hard disks were common.

When he lost track of the source code for some programs, he wrote ReSource, an iterative disassembler for the Intel 8080, to help him regenerate the source code.

When he needed to send files to Randy Suess, he wrote XMODEM.

1983

Jerry Pournelle wrote in 1983 of a collection of CP/M public-domain software that "probably 50 percent of the really good programs were written by Ward Christensen, a public benefactor."

1992

Christensen received two 1992 Dvorak Awards for Excellence in Telecommunications, one with Randy Suess for developing the first BBS, and a lifetime achievement award "for outstanding contributions to PC telecommunications."

1993

In 1993, he received the Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

2005

In May 2005, Christensen and Suess were both featured in BBS: The Documentary.

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