The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmedmainframes 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 (http://www.freewarehof.org/ward.html)}. (2005-09-20)