-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to All on 06-13-07  15:16 <=-

 MR> I knew I would have a hard time searching out my old reg paper, but
 MR> did find  Fred!  Anyway here is a snippet from wikipedia.. Does
 MR> it ring any bells  now? I don't fully agree with the last statement 
 MR> 8-)

That explains why I wouldn't have remembered him.. :)   Wiki doesn't
give dates of submission (or authors), does it?  That would be quite
interesting to know, too... :)

 MR> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 MR> Blue Wave was released to the public September 20, 1990 by Fred
 MR> Rappuhn and  George Hatchew, and marketed via their company, Blue Wave
 MR> Software. Fred  Rappuhn and George Hatchew were fellow Sysops who met
 MR> at a picnic for local  area Sysops. During this picnic, the concept of
 MR> Blue Wave was born and  development was started immediately. Fred
 MR> Rappuhn concentrated on the offline  reader while George Hatchew

Now that I didn't know.  Interesting.

 MR> concentrated on the doors that would convert the  BBS message system to
 MR> a Blue Wave format. This packet could then be downloaded  and read
 MR> offline by the Blue Wave Reader. It quickly gained success and soon 
 MR> became one of the top offline mail readers available. This team proved
 MR> to be  very successful and within a short amount of time had support
 MR> for all the top  BBS systems.

That fits with what I did know.  :)

 MR> Fred Rappuhn was hired as a programmer by EDS in September 1991 and
 MR> soon was  unable to continue development for Blue Wave Software. Blue
 MR> Wave Software  dissolved and George Hatchew started Cutting Edge
 MR> Computing to continue the  development of Blue Wave. Hatchew was later

My first reg letter was issued by Cutting Edge Computing, signed by
George.  No wonder I didn't know about Fred... 

 MR> involved in a serious car  accident, and was unable to continue
 MR> development of the system past 1993. Blue  Wave soon disappeared from
 MR> the BBS scene, replaced by a wave of QWK-based  readers.

The date here is off a bit... considering that 2.20 and following came
out in 1995.  By then George was handling the software end and his
brother Scott was doing the business end.

I agree with you, that last sentence is rather overstating the case,
too...!    I wouldn't say BW has disappeared even now... and there
have always been QWK-based readers around, before AND after... and QWK
seemed to be more likely to be built into a bbs system than BW.  Not to
mention, of course, the other major competitor to BW, Silver Xpress,
that Hector Santos worked up, also not a QWK system.

ttyl       neb

... Hey, look!  A completely new undocumented fea&%$#*{at} NO CARRIER

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