Borland Sidekick is a DOS based PIM (Personal Information Manager) and one of the first widely-used TSR (terminate and stay resident) programs. The key feature of Sidekick was that one could use Sidekick's utilities while using most other MS-DOS applications. This was important because MS-DOS had no built-in multi-tasking or task switching capabilities.
Later versions for OS/2 and Windows were simply a bundle of a similar PIM and utility programs.
Sidekick competed against a number of similar MS-DOS TSR utilities such as Popcorn Desktop, Sidekick was marked alongside Borland SupeKey.
Sidekick 2.0 for DOS turns sidekick in to a full-featured Personal Information Management program. It includes an address book, appointment calendar, and communications system.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Borland Sidekick 2.0 (1-11-1991) (3.5-720k) | 2.0 (1-11-1991) | English | 1.58MB | 2 | |
Borland Sidekick 2.0 (12-28-1990) (3.5-720k) | 2.0 (12-28-1990) | English | 1.58MB | 2 | |
Borland Sidekick 2.0 (12-28-1990) (5.25-360k) | 2.0 (12-28-1990) | English | 1.58MB | 3 | |
Borland Sidekick 2.01 (1991) (5.25-360k) | 2.01 | English | 2.22MB | 3 |