<div dir="auto">Cool. About that time I was using my VIC20 and my homebrew 8k sram card.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 20, 2017 2:07 PM, "Robert Bruninga" <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ah ha! Thanks for remembering. I guess the 1993 date was the first use of<br>
APRS during the Marine Corps Marathon.<br>
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Bob<br>
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From: Stan Horzepa [mailto:<a href="mailto:stanzepa@sbcglobal.net">stanzepa@sbcglobal.net</a><wbr>]<br>
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Subject: Re: [aprssig] When did APRS start ?<br>
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The Teaneck, NJ conference was in 1992 (25 years ago this November).<br>
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You can look it up here: <a href="https://www.tapr.org/pub_cnc11.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tapr.org/pub_<wbr>cnc11.html</a><br>
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On 7/20/17 1:52 PM, Robert Bruninga wrote:<br>
> Under the name APRS, it was 23 .7 years ago at the DCC presentation in<br>
> TeaNeck NJ in Sept/oct time frame. The concept of using a one-to-all<br>
> connectionless packet mode for this kid of app dates back to around<br>
> 1983 (or so?), when I used it on Comodore 64's and VIC-20's for<br>
> tracking runners in the 100 mile endurance run and National Disaster<br>
> Medical Exercise. Bob<br>
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> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 1:18 PM<br>
> To: Fred Hillhouse<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] When did APRS start ?<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 01:11:21PM -0400, we recorded a<br>
> bogon-computron collision of the <<a href="mailto:fmhillhouse@comcast.net">fmhillhouse@comcast.net</a>> flavor,<br>
> containing:<br>
>> According to this site <a href="http://aprs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://aprs.org/</a> it is in its 21st year. I'll<br>
>> let you do the math since I did the rest.<br>
> But that main page is not updated continuously. So it was in its 21st<br>
> year when that page was last updated.<br>
><br>
> Bob wrote up a history of APRS on his web site. It can be found here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.aprs.org/APRS-docs/ARTICLES.TXT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.aprs.org/APRS-docs/<wbr>ARTICLES.TXT</a><br>
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> The answer is in there.<br>
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>> Rich<br>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:57 PM<br>
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>> Guys what year did APRS start ?<br>
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