<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bob Bruninga, a senior research engineer at the United States Naval Academy, implemented the earliest ancestor of APRS on an <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II" title="Apple II" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Apple II</a> computer in 1982. This early version was used to map <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frequency" title="High frequency" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">high frequency</a> Navy position reports. The first use of APRS was in 1984, when Bruninga developed a more advanced version on a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20" title="Commodore VIC-20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">Commodore VIC-20</a> for reporting the position and status of horses in a 100-mile (160 km) endurance run.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; background-image: none; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_System#cite_note-3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[3]</a></sup></span><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 21 Jul 2017, at 3:11 am, Fred Hillhouse <<a href="mailto:fmhillhouse@comcast.net">fmhillhouse@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>According to this site <a href="http://aprs.org/">http://aprs.org/</a> it is in its 21st year. I'll let you do the math since I did the rest.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: aprssig [<a href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org">mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org</a>] On Behalf Of Andrew Rich</span><br><span>Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:57 PM</span><br><span>To: <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a></span><br><span>Subject: [aprssig] When did APRS start ?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Guys what year did APRS start ? </span><br><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>aprssig mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>---</span><br><span>This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.</span><br><span><a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus">https://www.avast.com/antivirus</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>aprssig mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>