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^[1]. 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^[2].

Qmodem Pro continued to be sold by Mustang Software through 2000 when the rights to it were purchased by Quintus Corporation^[3]. Its status is now abandonware.

Awards

• 1992 John Friel received the Dvorak Award for his development of Qmodem^[4]

External links

• Qmodem files at SimTel

References

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