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Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin , was the founder of the CBBS Bulletin Board , the first BBS ever brought online.

Ward was noted for building Software tools for his needs; he wrote a cassette based Operating System before Floppies and Hard Disk s were common. When he lost track of the Source Code for some Programs , he wrote ReSource (an iterative Disassembler for the 8080 ) to help him regenerate the Source Code . When he needed to send files to Randy Suess , he wrote XMODEM .


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