Datastorm Technologies, Inc.

Datastorm was a computer software company that existed from 1986 until 1996. The company was founded by Bruce Barkelew and Thomas Smith. Datastorm and their software, ProComm, was prominent in a pre-TCP/IP world where computer-to-computer modem connections (eg, bulletin board systems, or BBS's) were common. Datastorm was the first company to grow from a shareware model to a large retail company ProComm 2.4.3 for DOS is still available as shareware today.