Procomm Plus was the ultimate terminal emulator of the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was a product of Datastorm, a small software company based in Columbia, Mo., a college town about halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Obsolete for years because of the decline of BBSs and big iron computing, it still has a niche following among hobbyists who like vintage minicomputers and mainframes, because it can emulate almost any terminal you might want.
It was 30 years ago, on March 28, 1996, that Datastorm ended its run as an independent software publisher.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.
