[3][4][5] Suess was born in Skokie, Illinois, to Miland, a police officer, and Ruth (née Duppenthaler), a nurse.
[1] Suess put together the hardware which supported CBBS, while Christensen built the software, which was automatically loaded whenever someone dialed in.
By the time they retired the system in the 1980s, its single phone line had received more than half a million calls.
[7] He was an active member of the Chicago FM Club, where he helped with maintenance on their extensive radio repeater systems.
In 1992, Suess and Christensen received a Dvorak Telecommunications Excellence Award for their development of the first BBS.