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Assunto:  Re: Anthropic + xAI Colos
De:       John Richards
Data:     Mon, 11 May 2026 02:03:54 -0500
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-=> Mike Powell wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 PF>  MP> Also, IIRC, there was a software developer back then called the
Forbin
 PF>  MP> Project.  I wonder now if maybe that was the name of the development
 PF>  MP> group that created the Colossus BBS software, or if I am remembering
it

 PF>  MP> from some other package?  :D
 PF>
 PF>  The Forbin Project was the original shop that created Qmodem, I
 PF>  thought?

John Friel was one of the originators of Colossus BBS as a beta tester and
developer. Dan Plunkett wrote Clossus and pulled in Friel and 2 others to 
create a company they named The Forbin Project.
While with them John Friel III released, in 84 I think, Qmodem as an
alternative to PC-Talk. He sold Qmodem in 91 to Mustang Software who
revamped it and released Qmodem Pro in 92.

 MP> Could be?  I remember the name Chuck Fornsburg/berg but not what he
 MP> might have called the project.

I think you're getting Cuck Forsberg, author of DSZ Zmodem, confused with
this. He was never with The Forbin Project.


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