Re: Re: Anthropic + xAI Colossus ", Google Expert Advice ", design from the
By: Mike Powell to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon May 11 2026 12:55 am

Also, IIRC, there was a software developer back then called the Forbin Project. I wonder now if maybe that was the name of the development group that created the Colossus BBS software, or if I am remembering it
from some other package? :D

The Forbin Project was the original shop that created Qmodem, I
thought?

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

Chuck Forsberg (Omen Technologies) created the YMODEM and ZMODEM file transfer protocols (both derived to different degress from Ward Christensen's XMODEM).
https://wiki.synchro.net/history:memorial

John Friel (The Forbin Project) was behind QMODEM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem
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Mike Powell wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Also, IIRC, there was a software developer back then called the

Forbin

Project. I wonder now if maybe that was the name of the development group that created the Colossus BBS software, or if I am remembering

it

from some other package? :D

The Forbin Project was the original shop that created Qmodem, I
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.

Could be? I remember the name Chuck Fornsburg/berg but not what he
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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Re: Re: Anthropic + xAI Colos
By: John Richards to Mike Powell on Mon May 11 2026 02:03 am

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

ouch.


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The Forbin Project was the original shop that created Qmodem, I
thought?

Nope, thst would be Mustang Software, the original makers of Wildcat!.

Could be? I remember the name Chuck Fornsburg/berg but not what he might

ha

You're thinking of Chuck Forsberg, the inventor of thr ZModem Protocol
in 1986.


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John Friel (The Forbin Project) was behind QMODEM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem

Before Mustang Software took it over, IIRC.

Qmodem
Original authorJohn Friel III[1]
DeveloperMustang Software
Initial release1984; 42 years ago
Operating systemMS-DOS

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Chuck Forsberg (Omen Technologies) created the YMODEM and ZMODEM file transfer
protocols (both derived to different degress from Ward Christensen's XMODEM).
https://wiki.synchro.net/history:memorial

John Friel (The Forbin Project) was behind QMODEM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem

Thanks. I was pretty sure that the Forbin name was on a product that was pretty well known back in the "golden age". ;)


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The Forbin Project was the original shop that created Qmodem, I
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.

Could be? I remember the name Chuck Fornsburg/berg but not what he 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.

LOL, I see now that Poindexter typed "Q" but I read "Z"! :D Yes, I very much had things confused!


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Re: Re: Anthropic + xAI Colos
By: John Richards to Mike Powell on Mon May 11 2026 02:03 am

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

ouch.

Sorry. Keyboard sticks at times. That should have read "Chuck Forsberg ..."

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