ProTERM

ProTERM is a terminal emulator and modem program for the Apple II and Macintosh lines of personal computers. Published by Intrec Software and most popular in the late 1980s and 1990s, it was most commonly used for calling bulletin board systems (BBSes) via a computer's modem.

ProTERM was rich in features such as an extensive "scrollback" buffer limited only by the computer's memory, an optional mouse-based interface in the Apple II version (standard on the Mac), an easy-to-use and very powerful text editor, autolearning macros, and a variety of terminal emulations such as VT-100 and the powerful but proprietary ProTERM Special Emulation (also: PSE or PTSE) which used Apple's semigraphical MouseText character set. Supported file transfer protocols ranged from Kermit and Xmodem to Ymodem (4K and G) and Zmodem.

The latest published versions of ProTERM were v3.1 for the Apple II and v1.5 for the Macintosh.

On April 15, 2009, the most recent Apple II version, 3.1, was relicensed as freeware^[1] and is now available for download.

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