[aprssig] MacAPRS_carbon OT:History

[Dennis Hudson]

I did not know that. But I've been playing with MacAPRS since 96 so I 
know it's been an important part of APRS. Should have been called 
MacAPRS for Windows.

I ran the local iGate with MacAPRS for a few years before setting up 
aprsd.

Now my iGate and regional server are back on Macintosh on my Xserve G4 
running javAPRSSrvr on OSX.

--
Dennis Hudson, N2LBT
Sysop APRSALY
http://n2lbt.com:14501
Albany, NY

On Dec 13, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Steve Dimse wrote:

> On 12/13/04 at 7:31 PM Dennis Hudson <n2lbt at spamcop.net> sent:
>
>> second.aprs.net  <running on a mac cool!
>
> Perhaps you didn't know the original APRS IS hub was Mac-only, aprsd 
> didn't come
> along for perhaps a year or two after APRServ, and javAPRSSrvr is a 
> relative
> newcomer, but deservedly the key to the hub system now. In fact David 
> (who asked
> the question at the head of this thread) was responsible for the 
> second Mac
> server for quite some time. Greg took over providing a second hub 
> after David
> had to back out, and of course Greg is also a Mac man, which is why 
> second runs
> on a Mac. Even before that, MacAPRS was the first client program 
> written, after
> Bob's own APRSdos. Seems like a couple lifetimes ago now...
>
> Like most things involving personal computing, Macs were at the 
> forefront of
> APRS! There, people on the SIG has been too nice lately, that should 
> stir things
> up ;-)
> Steve K4HG
>