I knew I would have a hard time searching out my old reg paper, but did find 
Fred!  Anyway here is a snippet from wikipedia.. Does it ring any bells 
now? I don't fully agree with the last statement  8-)
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Blue Wave was released to the public September 20, 1990 by Fred Rappuhn and 
George Hatchew, and marketed via their company, Blue Wave Software. Fred 
Rappuhn and George Hatchew were fellow Sysops who met at a picnic for local 
area Sysops. During this picnic, the concept of Blue Wave was born and 
development was started immediately. Fred Rappuhn concentrated on the offline 
reader while George Hatchew concentrated on the doors that would convert the 
BBS message system to a Blue Wave format. This packet could then be downloaded 
and read offline by the Blue Wave Reader. It quickly gained success and soon 
became one of the top offline mail readers available. This team proved to be 
very successful and within a short amount of time had support for all the top 
BBS systems.

Fred Rappuhn was hired as a programmer by EDS in September 1991 and soon was 
unable to continue development for Blue Wave Software. Blue Wave Software 
dissolved and George Hatchew started Cutting Edge Computing to continue the 
development of Blue Wave. Hatchew was later involved in a serious car 
accident, and was unable to continue development of the system past 1993. Blue 
Wave soon disappeared from the BBS scene, replaced by a wave of QWK-based 
readers.
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