Dale Heatherington

Dale Heatherington (1948 – 2021) was an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known for helping Dennis C. Hayes in the development of Hayes Microcomputer Products, the company that pioneered the Hayes modem and the Hayes command set.

Although a southern newspaper described him as "just a multimillionaire who likes tracking his cat with a homemade radio transmitter", Heatherington's career went beyond the modem company, including work in the area of game robots. Funding for his robotics can be traced to having "had his name on all the important patents." The company is also noted as "the first to integrate its own command set" (known as the Hayes command set).

Heatherington retired from Hayes Microcomputer in 1985;

Education Heatherington majored in electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University.