Datastorm Technologies

<p>Datastorm Technologies, Inc., was a computer software company that existed from 1986 until 1996. Bruce Barkelew and Thomas Smith founded the company to develop and publish ProComm, a general-purpose communications program for <a href="/facts/Personal_computer/koaYfNce">personal computers</a>. 
ProComm flourished in the pre-<a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a> world, when personal computers used <a href="/facts/Modem/9H0Xwtq0">modems</a> to connect over <a href="/facts/Telephone_line/YdKUAka9">telephone lines</a> with other individual computers, online services such as <a href="/facts/CompuServe/Pjpdcf2a">CompuServe</a>, <a href="/facts/Bulletin_board_system/22d9c9s2">bulletin board systems</a> (BBSs), <a href="/facts/Telnet/hxT0e85h">Telnet</a> and <a href="/facts/Gopher_(protocol)/G2bpDRQJ">Gopher</a> sites, and the like. Datastorm was the first company to evolve from a <a href="/facts/Shareware/TAhIvJXt">shareware</a> publisher into a large commercial software publisher. ProComm 2.4.3 for <a href="/facts/MS-DOS/fVrrz1uN">MS-DOS</a> is still available as shareware.
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Datastorm Technologies