Qmodem was an MS DOS shareware telecommunications program and terminal emulator . Qmodem was widely used to access bulletin boards in the 1980s and was well respected in the Bulletin Board System community. Qmodem was also known as Qmodem SST and Qmodem Pro. History Qmodem was developed by John Friel III in 1984 and sold as shareware through a company called The Forbin Project . Qmodem gained in popularity very quickly because it was much faster and had many new features compared to PC Talk , the dominant shareware IBM PC communications program of that time. ref cite book title The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications last Glossbrenner first Alfred publisher St. Martin s Press year 1985 location New York, NY isbn 0 312 15760 6 pages 111 112 ref Originally developed in Borland Turbo Pascal , the application originally supported the Xmodem protocol, gradually added support for other protocols such as the popular Zmodem protocol and CompuServe specific protocols such as CIS B and CIS B . Qmodem evolved to include features such as the ability to host a simple Bulletin Board System . The application was sold to Mustang Software in 1991 and in 1992 Mustang Software released version 5 of the program. ref cite news title New for telecom Qmodem 5 debuts from Mustang Mustang ... of the software to Qmodem Pro and released several versions for MS DOS and for Microsoft Windows with the final version being Qmodem Pro 2.21 for Windows 95 and Windows NT which was released July 7, 1997. ref http www.slbbs.com files comm.html SLBBS Support Files ref Qmodem Pro continued to be sold ... http www.pcmag.com encyclopedia term 0,2542,t Qmodem Pro&i 50023,00.asp Qmodem Pro Definition ref Its status is now abandonware . In 2003, an independent free software re implementation of Qmodem .... Awards 1992 John Friel received the Dvorak Awards Dvorak Award for his development of Qmodem ... External links http www.simtel.net search?q qmodem&image.x 9&image.y 6 Qmodem files at SimTel Category ... more details
Notability date August 2010 Primary sources date August 2010 Infobox software name Qodem logo screenshot File qodem menu.png 300px caption Qodem running in a X11 xterm uxterm window collapsible author developer Kevin Lamonte released latest release version 0.3.2 latest release date release date and age 2010 10 22 latest preview version latest preview date frequently updated programming language C programming language C operating system Linux , POSIX platform Cross platform status Active genre Terminal emulator license GNU General Public License GPL website http qodem.sourceforge.net Qodem is a text based free software clone of the popular MS DOS program Qmodem , updated for use on modern Unix like operating systems. Its main features include Unicode support, multiple terminal emulation s Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator Avatar , ANSI.SYS , VT100 , XTerm , and others , file transfer protocols, Macro computer science keyboard macros , external scripts, and a dialing directory. Qodem is commonly used to access Bulletin board system Bulletin Board Systems and remote serial console s. It can conveniently transfer files over interactive Secure Shell ssh and telnet sessions with serial protocols such as Zmodem and Kermit protocol Kermit . See also Portal Free software Qmodem Minicom SyncTERM vttest External links http qodem.sourceforge.net Qodem home page http www.vanemery.com Linux Serial serial console.html Linux Serial Console HOWTO Category Communication software Category Free software programmed in C Category Free terminal emulators Category Software clones network software stub ... more details
Image WinComm Pro 7.0 screenshot.png thumb 350px Sample screenshot of WinComm PRO 7.0 WinComm was a communications software package that was offered by Delrina in the mid 1990s. Seeing a growing business in online communications utilities, Delrina launched WinComm PRO. It was used primarily to connect to Bulletin board system Bulletin Board Systems of the time, prior to the advent of the Internet. By double clicking on an icon, the program would automatically connect to any of a number pre defined online services, such as Delphi online service Delphi , Compuserve or GEnie , or to any other local BBS a user may have had defined. Delrina tried to expand aggressively into this market space, first by acquiring the Canadian online bulletin board service CRS Online , and then using it as a distribution channel for free versions of its WinComm LITE and DOS based FreeComm products in March 1995. The WinComm PRO product culminated in version 7.0, which was bundled with the CommSuite 95 software package, which also included versions of WinFax and Cyberjack . WinComm was a relative latecomer to the market, which was dominated at the time by Datastorm Technologies, Inc. Datastorm s Procomm series of products. Competitors Qmodem ProComm Hilgraeve Crosstalk Mk.4 External links http www.monitor.ca monitor issues vol3iss10 feature4.html Review of WinComm PRO 7.0, accessed November 6, 2005 Category Communication software Category Terminal emulators Category Windows only software ... more details
Multiple issues cleanup December 2008 refimprove December 2008 Crosstalk Mk.4 was a commercially available PC telecommunications and Terminal emulator terminal emulation software package originally produced by Atlanta based Crosstalk Communications, from the late 1980s through 1990, and by Digital Communications Associates until the mid 1990s. Crosstalk Mk.4 was one of a suite of products produced by the company others included the famed Crosstalk XVI, Crosstalk Communicator, Crosstalk for Windows, and Remote 2. Featuring multisession communications capabilities, Crosstalk Mk.4 allowed multiple serial port s to be used and controlled simultaneously. A powerful programming language called CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language provided full program and communications activity control, and enabled users to create a wide variety of custom applications. The program was in widespread use globally and served the communications and equipment control needs of major television network s, Pharmaceutical company pharmaceutical companies , Oil production oil producers , and North American real estate listing providers, among many others. Awards Crosstalk Mk.4 received many accolade s during its production, including PC Magazine Editors Choice and PC World magazine PC World Product of the Year awards. Competitors ProComm Qmodem WinComm Hilgraeve External links http www.sandsofsarasota.com les xtalk images specs x4 cover small.jpg Crosstalk Mk.4 Brochure Cover http www.sandsofsarasota.com les xtalk images manual x4.jpg Crosstalk Mk.4 Box Front Category Communication software ... more details
unreferenced date December 2009 Commo is a telecommunications Computer program program which was written and maintained from 1989 to 1998 by Fred P. Brucker . It was a Macro computer science macro driven package and could be Personalization customized by the user. The program, written in Optimization computer science optimized assembly language and distributed as shareware , was small and fast. The macro Programming language language used by Commo was simple, with assembly language like statements surrounded by curly braces . It offered the ability to control most aspects of the Terminal emulator terminal . For instance, the following macro would reconfigure the Alt key Alt X key to display a dialog box , allowing the user to confirm before exiting the program code alx info qs0 Really exit? ifco ,alxn exit alxn code The program s macro and configuration files were free form text which could be edited with any text editor . This led to popularity among those who wanted to be able to configure the program. Fred Brucker actively provided support for screen readers to work with COMMO, which made it a popular program for the visually impaired . The Powermacros Plug in computing add on made COMMO one of the first Trade Wars 2002 helper programs. MacroBBS was a Bulletin board system system written entirely out of COMMO macros. Mr. Brucker released the last version of COMMO on 25 December 1998. See also Telix Qmodem Terminate Kermit protocol Kermit Minicom ProComm Plus External links http www.filegate.net comm commo75.zip commo75.zip &mdash COMMO 7.5 shareware archive 1997 http web.archive.org web 20091027150157 http www.geocities.com dcrife commo77.zip commo77.zip &mdash COMMO 7.7, final version 1998 Category Communication software Category Terminal emulators Category DOS software network software stub ... more details
refimprove date December 2008 Mustang Software, Inc. was a California based corporation that developed telecommunications software products. Mustang was incorporated in 1988, became a public corporation NASDAQ ticker symbol MSTG in 1995, and was finally merged into Quintus Corporation in 2000. Mustang s first software products were sold using the shareware model. As the company grew, the products were soon migrated to shrinkware . During the rise of the Internet and electronic software distribution, Mustang stopped distributing physical products and instead sold license s to its software. Major Products Wildcat BBS For most of its lifetime, Mustang s flagship product was Wildcat BBS . Wildcat was a bulletin board system that computer users could dial into using a modem , and communicate with other users online. Initially, only one user could be dialed into the system at one time, but technological advances later allowed more than one user to be online simultaneously and to interact with one another. The first versions of Wildcat ran on the DOS platform. In the mid 1990s, Mustang developed a new version called WINServer that ran on 32 bit Microsoft Windows Windows platforms. Wildcat was sold to http www.santronics.com Santronics Software, Inc. in 1998 as Mustang wanted to concentrate on its new software products. QmodemPro Mustang bought Qmodem from The Forbin Project in 1992 and renamed it to QmodemPro. ref name washpost cite news title New for telecom Qmodem 5 debuts from Mustang Mustang Software Inc. s communications software Product Announcement publisher Washington Post Newsweek Interactive date 1992 01 13 url http findarticles.com p articles mi m0NEW is 1992 Jan 13 ai 11745228 accessdate 2007 08 20 Dead link date September 2010 bot RjwilmsiBot ref QmodemPro was a DOS based communications program, intended for use by computer users to dial in to BBS systems. Mustang developed versions of QmodemPro for 16 bit and 32 bit version of Windows. Support for Remote imag ... more details
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Hilgraeve is a software firm based out of Monroe, Michigan , and is best known for its HyperTerminal Private Edition and HyperACCESS programs. In earlier years, HyperTerminal had been licensed for use by Microsoft in versions of Windows ranging from Windows 95 to Windows XP . The company was founded in 1980 by John Hile , Matt Gray programmer Matt Gray , and Bob Everett . The company s name was derived from the first three letters of each of the founder s last names. The firm s first software product was HyperACCESS , which was initially designed to enable Heathkit Heath 8 bit computers to communicate over a modem. In 1985 this same product was ported to IBM PC s and compatible systems. Over the years the same version of this technology would be ported to other operating systems including OS 2 , Windows 95 , Windows XP , and Windows NT . Competition heated up in the early 1990s and Hilgraeve would compete in the online communications software market against the likes of Datastorm Techcnologies, Inc. Datastorm s ProComm line of software, and Delrina s WinComm . In 1994 IBM was the first major OS vendor to bundle one of Hilgraeve products with a 32 bit OS by including a copy of the firm s terminal program with OS 2 Warp 3.0, it was named HyperAccess Lite http www.insiderradio.com pa ibm warp.html . One year later Microsoft followed suit and licensed a low end version known as HyperTerminal essentially a Lite version for use in their set of communications utilities. It was initially bundled with Windows 95 , and subsequently all versions of Windows up to and including Windows XP . Hilgraeve was an early entrant into devising anti virus software, and received patents for its HyperGuard product, designed to prevent viruses from being downloaded while connected to an online service. In February 2008, Hilgraeve s Healthcare business HyperSend and HyperBridge was acquired by Compuware . Competitors Qmodem WinComm ProComm Crosstalk Mk.4 External links http www.hilgraeve.com ... more details
of the popular shareware communications program Qmodem . Some popular freeware BBS programs for MS ... and 1990s era modem terminal emulator terminal emulation software, like Telix , Terminate , Qmodem ... more details
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