Editing Attachmate (section)

==History and products==
===Attachmate Corporation===
[[Image:Old Attachmate logo.jpg|thumb|right|Older logo, as of 1988]]
Attachmate was founded in 1982 by [[Frank Pritt|Frank W. Pritt]].<ref name=DC.0>{{cite web
|quote=Key Dates: 1982: Frank Pritt founds Attachmate. 1994: Attachmate merges with DCA.
|title=History of Attachmate Corporation  |website=FundingUniverse.com
|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/attachmate-corporation-history}}</ref> It focused initially on the IBM terminal emulation market, and became a major technology employer in the Seattle area.<ref name=WRQ.CG>{{cite web |quote=Attachmate, founded by Pritt in 1982, was among the region's largest software developers in the late '90s and early '00s, with revenue of ...
|title=Investors begin merger of Attachmate and WRQ
|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/05/30/daily27.html |date=May 30, 2005}}</ref>

===KeaTerm===
KEAsystems' '''KEAterm''' products were PC software packages that emulated some of [[Digital Equipment Corporation]]'s VT terminals, and facilitated integrating Windows-based PCs with multiple host applications.<ref name=CW93>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Computerworld]]
|quote=KEAterm is an advanced software emulation of Digital Equipment Corp.'s VT terminals, enabling users to integrate multiple host applications into the Windows 
|title=KEA DEC/VTterminal eumulation |date=September 6, 1993  |page=93
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PgsZJgu-zDkC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|quote=After consideration, two products were selected for more detailed evaluation, Pathworks VT320/VT382 for Windows and KEAterm VT340. VT320/VT382 are ...
|title=Terminal Emulator Task Force Report - City University of Hong Kong
|url=https://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netcomp/net2/pc240.htm}}</ref> These included KEAterm [[VT320|VT340]] and [[VT420]] [[terminal emulator]]s, and KEA X [[X terminal]] software).

KEA was acquired by Attachmate.<ref name=KEA.ChadGad>{{cite web
|quote=We have certain macros in our <u>Attachment KeaTerm 4.23</u> (''emphasis added'') install that aren't easily workable in other terminal emulators or at least no one has ...
|title=Need a replacement for SCO TermLite.  |website=ARStechnica.com
|url=https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=1112274
|date=June 3, 2010}}</ref>

===DCA IRMA===
[[Image:KL DCA BS0017.jpg|thumb|right|DCA IRMA II ISA network card]]
Another acquisition was [[Digital Communications Associates|Digital Communications Associates (DCA)]], makers of IRMA line of terminal emulators, INFOconnect, Crosstalk communications software, and OpenMind [[collaborative software]]).<ref name=DC.0/> DCA was also known for its [[Irma board|3270 IRMA]]<ref>{{cite book
   |title=Expanding and Networking Microcomputers
   |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1349076252  |isbn=1349076252
   |author1=Dennis Longley  |author2=Michael Shain  |date=1985
   | publisher=Springer |quote=IRMA DECISION SUPPORT INTERFACE ... PC3278/79 EMULATOR/ADAPTOR BOARD}}</ref> hardware product  (used for [[Synchronous Data Link Control|SDLC]]), and ISCA SDLC hardware adapters. They also supported driver downloads.

===Extra!===
The Attachmate '''Extra!''' family of terminal emulator packages was built to include [[IBM 3270|3270]], [[IBM 5250|5250]] and [[DEC VT100|VT100]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moonsoft.net/products/000283.aspx|title=Moonsoft - Products - Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme}}</ref><ref>[[Computer Associates]]' help desk documented a problem with it. {{cite web
   |url=https://support.ca.com/us/download-center/problem-detail.html?productcd=ATMXC%26problemnbr=415%26docid=305874
   |title=HLLAPI Short Names don't appear in Session Configurator}} so did IBM. {{cite web
   |url=https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014917867
   |title=Attachmate EXTRA! X-treme automation using RFT
   |website=[[IBM]]
 |date=December 9, 2012}}</ref><ref>By 1988 it was being marketed as "Attachmate Extra!" (source: a pricesheet that includes various software options and four hardware products)</ref>