Subj : Re: Asia/Asian?
To   : John Dovey
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 16:52:46

  Re: Re: Asia/Asian?
  By: John Dovey to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 28 2022 04:17 am

 > 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, t
 > migh
 >  CS>  >  CS> still be here todaay as a zone.  In the end, it was a collectio
 > 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
 > leas
 >  CS>  > here, in Latin America, we have a strong retrocomputing community, s
 > every
 >  CS>  > and then someone from our glorious past joins back to the family. In
 > slow
 >  CS>  > pace, but steady, we were able to add 10 systems to Argentina, Brazi
 > 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 nod
 > 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 runni
 > in South Africa, and he's QWKNet only.
 > 
 > *** [Netmail-to-Telegram address: 474405162@2:460/256]
 > 
 > ... Tag, you are IT!

Is he!  I'll see if I can find him.  We were good friends until I lost contact.

  xxcarol
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