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 Victor “Vic” Poor (W5SMM) (July 12, 1933 \u2013 August 17, 2012) was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation (later renamed Datapoint Corporation<\/a>), he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008<\/a>. Subsequently, Computer Terminal Corporation created the first personal computer, the Datapoint 2200<\/a> programmable terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenges of communicating by radio while at sea (callsign W5SMM)\u00a0led Poor to develop software that integrates Internet with amateur radio to store and forward messages; this system is today part of a major amateur-supported emergency communications network.\u00a0While sailing, Poor wanted a better way to communicate with those around him. This led to him developing, in 1985, the original computer program,\u00a0APlink<\/a>\u00a0(AMTOR-Packet Link). Then as part of a group of radio amateurs, acting as the architect Poor helped to develop what became\u00a0Winlink<\/a>. Both systems would automatically store and forward messages between amateur radio stations. With no one in the group able to take royalties due to the amateur radio regulations,\u00a0the\u00a0American Radio Relay League<\/a>\u00a0(ARRL) later adopted APlink for their National Traffic System (NTS) digital messages.\u00a0The system was widely adopted by radio amateurs, the United States military, and state and local emergency preparedness teams. It was credited with being one of the few communications systems that worked in the wake of\u00a0Hurricane Katrina<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vic\u2019s association with the University of Michigan is through members Irv Hoff (RTTY) and Jonathan Schmidt (DataPoint Corporation).  It was from Schmidt that the club received Poor\u2019s Heathkit \u201cTwo\u2019er\u201d transceiver.<\/p>\n\n\n

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 Victor “Vic” Poor (W5SMM) (July 12, 1933 \u2013 August 17, 2012) was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation (later renamed Datapoint Corporation), he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008. Subsequently, Computer Terminal Corporation created the first personal computer, the Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal. The challenges of communicating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192203,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1133\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umarc.eecs.umich.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}