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A suite of TSR utilities that could be classified as a Personal Information Manager.

History

Initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for Danish software publisher Borland, who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and SDK for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 PM version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development.

During 1989 IBM gave a free copy of Sidekick with every copy of OS/2 they sold in certain jurisdictions.

Versions

DOS

1.0 introduced in 1984
1.56 - last 1.x release sold on its own
1.58a was offered to OEM's at a reduced price after 2.0 came out.

Sidekick Plus (DOS)

1.0 - introduced in 1987
1.0a - Bugfix released in 1988

Macintosh

Sidekick 1.0 for Mac was released in 1985 as the first Macintosh product from Borland.

SideKick for PM

1988: SideKick 1.0
1989: SideKick 1.01
Sidekick 2.0

Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher.

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-A suite of TSR utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]], initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for Danish software publisher [[Borland]], who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and SDK for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development.
+A suite of TSR utilities that could be classified as a [[Personal Information Manager]].
-Development of the software was later taken over by Starfish Software who released one version in two variants that ran under Win-OS/2 and continued developing the software for the MS Windows platform until 1998.
+==History==
+Initially released in 1984 for DOS and became a surprise hit for Danish software publisher [[Borland]], who sold over a million copies of the first release. Although software was developed for Sidekick in it's original DOS version, there was for a time something resembling and SDK for it available, and there was some scope for development for the later Windows versions of the software, the extreme simplicity of the OS/2 [[PM]] version of it and the lack of an API meant that it was never used for OS/2 development.
 During 1989 [[IBM]] gave a free copy of Sidekick with every copy of OS/2 they sold in certain jurisdictions.
 ==Versions==
-* Sidekick 1.0 introduced in 1984 - Version 1.56 the last 1.x release sold on its own, 1.58a was offered to OEM's at a reduced price after 2.0 came out.
+;DOS
-* Sidekick 1.0 for Mac was released in 1985 as the first Macintosh product from Borland and one of the first third party products available for the Mac in general.
+* 1.0 introduced in 1984
-* Sidekick Plus for DOS introduced in 1987 - Bugfix release 1.0a released in 1988.
+* 1.56 - last 1.x release sold on its own
+* 1.58a was offered to OEM's at a reduced price after 2.0 came out.
+;Sidekick Plus (DOS)
+* 1.0 - introduced in 1987
+* 1.0a - Bugfix released in 1988
+;Macintosh
+* Sidekick 1.0 for Mac was released in 1985 as the first Macintosh product from Borland.
 ;SideKick for PM
 * 1988: SideKick 1.0
 * 1989: SideKick 1.01
-* '''Last OS/2 version''': Sidekick 2.0
+* Sidekick 2.0
 :Requires OS/2 1.1 or higher.
 [[Category:PIM]]