Career
He left the Georgia Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s to work at an early data communications company, National Data Corporation in Atlanta, a company that handled electronic money transfers and cr card authorizations. Hayes" job was to set up modem connections for NDC"s customers. He met Dale Heatherington (born 1948) at National Data Corporation.
Together they developed and marketed the first high-quality International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer modem, and built the company named Hayes Communications around lieutenant
While Heatherington left the company early to retire, Hayes ran the company until it filed for bankruptcy in 1998 when the technology was incorporated into the products of competitors.
