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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