Subj : Re: Asia/Asian?
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : John Dovey
Date : Mon Mar 28 2022 04:17:56

Glad to see you, Carol!

 CS>   Re: Re: Asia/Asian?
 CS>   By: Flavio Bessa to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 21 2022 10:04 pm
 CS>  > On 21 Mar 2022, Carol Shenkenberger said the following...
 CS>  > 
 CS>  >  CS> I think if telegram existed when Russel Tiedt was running Z5, they migh
 CS>  >  CS> still be here todaay as a zone.  In the end, it was a collection trying
 CS>  >  CS> to push fidonet over packet radio and some other oddball thing explaine
 CS>  >  CS> as related to ham radio related signals.
 CS>  > 
 CS>  >     One thing that I never understood about Z5 and Z6 demise is that at leas
 CS>  > here, in Latin America, we have a strong retrocomputing community, so every 
 CS>  > and then someone from our glorious past joins back to the family. In a slow
 CS>  > pace, but steady, we were able to add 10 systems to Argentina, Brazil and
 CS>  > Panama in the last 5 years.
 CS>  > 
 CS>  >     It's been a while since Z5 and Z6 are gone... There should have been
 CS>  > someone on that area willing to come back...
 CS>  > 
 CS>  > ... I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
 CS>  > 
 CS> Hehe, I tried with Z6 but in the end, we transitioned the remaining nodes to
 CS> Z3.  There have been a few popping back up, but in Z3.
 CS>   xxcarol

I'm ex Z5, but now Z4. RT is in New Zealand.. I know of only one board running  in South Africa, and he's QWKNet only.

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