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Hi, Flavio Bessa & Carol Shenkenberger ...

 >> CS> I think if telegram existed when Russel Tiedt was running Z5, they
 >> migh CS> still be here todaay as a zone.  In the end, it was a collection
 >> trying CS> to push fidonet over packet radio and some other oddball thing
 >> explaine CS> as related to ham radio related signals.

 >> One thing that I never understood about Z5 and Z6 demise is that at leas
 >> here, in Latin America, we have a strong retrocomputing community, so
 >> every  and then someone from our glorious past joins back to the family.
 >> In a slow pace, but steady, we were able to add 10 systems to Argentina,
 >> Brazil and Panama in the last 5 years.

 >> It's been a while since Z5 and Z6 are gone... There should have been
 >> someone on that area willing to come back...

 >> ... I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.


 CS> Hehe, I tried with Z6 but in the end, we transitioned the remaining nodes
 CS> to Z3.  There have been a few popping back up, but in Z3.

 CS>   xxcarol
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