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| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|05|06}}
| birth_place = [[Wilmette, Illinois]],
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|09|24|1944|05|06}}
| death_place = [[Portland, Oregon]],
| other_names = Chuck Forsberg
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Forsberg then wrote a version, Zmodem G, which was for use over "guaranteed error free" communications lines, such as Ethernet or short serial-to-serial computer connections. This protocol waived the usual retransmission overhead, to send files as fast as possible.
Originally, he wrote a program for Unix called rbsb (receive batch / send batch) which used block 0 to transmit a file's name, and optionally date and time, since [[Ward Christensen]] designed [[
Forsberg most recently resided in [[Portland, Oregon]], prior to his death. He ran data transmission software company Omen Technology which he founded in 1984.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.omen.com/about.html |title=About Omen Technology |accessdate=2012-02-16 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915193210/http://www.omen.com/about.html |archivedate=September 15, 2015 }}</ref> Omen Technology published software tools such as ZComm (a terminal-based communications program that included the ZMODEM-90 file transfer protocol) and DSZ.<ref name="autogenerated">{{cite web | url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OmenTechnology-ZComm-DSZ-SoftwareDisks.jpg|title=Image of software diskettes for ZComm and DSZ, software products published by Omen Software (circa 1990)}}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=July 2021}} He was an [[amateur radio operator]] (call sign WA7KGX)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=862831 | title = Amateur License – WA7KGX – FORSBERG, CHARLES A | accessdate = 2012-02-16}}</ref> and a licensed aircraft pilot.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>
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