[aprssig] When did APRS start ?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:11:21PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <fmhillhouse at comcast.net> flavor, containing:
> According to this site http://aprs.org/ it is in its 21st year. I'll let you do the math since I did the rest.

But that main page is not updated continuously.  So it was in its 21st year
when that page was last updated.  

Bob wrote up a history of APRS on his web site.  It can be found here:
http://www.aprs.org/APRS-docs/ARTICLES.TXT

The answer is in there.

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> From: aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Rich
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:57 PM
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> Subject: [aprssig] When did APRS start ?
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> Guys what year did APRS start ? 
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