[aprssig] When did APRS start ?

[Andrew Rich]

Bob Bruninga, a senior research engineer at the United States Naval Academy, implemented the earliest ancestor of APRS on an Apple II computer in 1982. This early version was used to map high frequency Navy position reports. The first use of APRS was in 1984, when Bruninga developed a more advanced version on a Commodore VIC-20 for reporting the position and status of horses in a 100-mile (160 km) endurance run.[3]

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> On 21 Jul 2017, at 3:11 am, Fred Hillhouse <fmhillhouse at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Guys what year did APRS start ? 
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