Qmodem

Qmodem

Qmodem was a 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 BBS community. Qmodem was also known as Qmodem SST and Qmodem Pro.

History

Qmodem was developed by John Friel III in 1984 and sold the software through a company called The Forbin Project. The application was sold to Mustang Software in 1991 and in 1992 Mustang Software released version 5 of the program [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] . Mustang Software changed the name 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 [ [http://www.slbbs.com/files/comm.html SLBBS Support Files] ] .

Qmodem Pro continued to be sold by Mustang Software through 2000 when the rights to it were purchased by Quintus Corporation [ [http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=Qmodem+Pro&i=50023,00.asp Qmodem Pro Definition] ] . Its status is now abandonware.

Awards

*1992 John Friel received the Dvorak Award for his development of Qmodem [ [http://www.citivu.com/dvorak/index.html#1992 Dvorak Awards] ]

External links

* [http://www.eunet.bg/simtel.net/msdos/qmodem.html Qmodem files at SimTel]

References


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