Comments on: What happened to Procomm Plus

By: Shirley Marquez

Shirley Marquez — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:30:27 +0000

Basically it died of irrelevance. People moved to the world wide web, and most no longer spent time using terminal emulators. The remaining market wasn’t sufficient to justify continued development. So it withered on the vine at Quarterdeck/Symantec and was discontinued.

I’m glad to hear that the developers landed on their feet afterward.

By: Dave Farquhar

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 22:38:50 +0000

In reply to ibmmuseum. That was the PERFECT use case for Procomm Plus. Some elder classmates may have passed me some scripts to make life on the college mainframe a bit easier. Even if you were tech savvy, automating a series of often-repeated keystrokes was a major productivity gain.

By: ibmmuseum

ibmmuseum — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:33:37 +0000

In the early 90’s, I set up my dad with ProComm Plus to run on a dedicated 286 (later a 486DX-33) system to replace the dial-up terminal an office product supplier had provided to his business. The scripting was a major part of helping his tech savy-deficient nature to know what sequence to follow in the ordering process. I reduced the effort involved to a few function key presses to open, order products, and close the session.