Carbon Copy (software)
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Carbon Copy was "a remote control/communications program"[1] with for-its-day advanced features for remote screen sharing,[2] background file transfer, and "movable chat windows".[3]
The New York Times described it thus: "you can sit at the console of either machine and call up the programs and files stored on the other".[4] Computerworld called it "a package that mirrors every action a user takes on two connected PCs".[5]
Part of its user base was acquired via inclusion as bonus software for a modem that could communicate at "300, 1200 and 2400 baud."[6]
Carbon Copy's vendor, Meridian Technology, was acquired by Microcom in early 1988,[7] and accepted tax credits to move software duplication and packaging of Carbon Copy to Puerto Rico.[8] Meridian had a British subsidiary, also acquired by Microcom.[9]
