There are more Z-Corps in Processing than we can house in the bunkers, and the computer command system requires constant upgrading to keep it intelligent enough for the Xist communications that occasionally break through.

- The Book of the SubGenius

Founders

• Dan Heller, 1990
• Bart Schaefer, 1990

Early Employees [1]

• Kim Etter (Office/Operations Manager), 1992 [2]
• Sky (Schulz) Golightly (QDX port [3]), 1991
• Ross Oliver (Z-Fax [3]), 1991

The Z-Mail Engineers (team leaders bold)

Macintosh Greg Fox, 1992 Robert Gagnon, 1996 Steve Iribarne, 1995 Unix Bob Glickstein (Lite), 1992 Don Hatch, 1992 (c) Ben Liblit (MediaMail), 1993 Carlyn Lowery (MIME), 1993 Jef Poskanzer (OpenLook [4]), 1992 Chris Sears (c) S. Spencer Sun, 1994 Sean Welch, 1994 Unix and Windows [5] Paul Falstad, 1993 Tom Johnson (Internationalization), 1994

Windows [5] Paul Chou, 1996 Scott Ding, 1995 Jerry Hudgins (Z-POP), 1994 Tohru Nishimura (c) Michael Plotkin, 1996 Mike Slater, 1994 Tony Stringer, 1993 Ray Valdez, 1992 (c) Gary Wingert, 1994 Wilbur Wong, 1994 DOS [3] Richard Lawler, 1992 Engineering Management (among other hats) Linda Branagan, 1993 David Hartmann, 1994 Dani Kurepa, 1994 Steve Webster, 1992

Other Former Z-Coders

Donna Baccaro, 1992 Christine M. Begle, 1994 Doug ``Beegs'' Begle, 1994 Patrick Blackburn, 1994 Lilah Blinder Ron Britton, 1993 Doug Bond (c) Sandy Bonner (t) Jayne Brogan, 1993 Kim Brown, 1993 Ken Burke, 1994 Detra Bush (c) Lisa Butler Wes Carroll, 1995 (c) Melissa Cavin (t) Cliff Chosy, 1995 John Cole, 1992 Dan Cox, 1992 Lee Davis, 1993 John DeBriere (``Viper'' [3]), 1995 Gus DeSoto (c) Andrea Dougherty, 1992 Alison Dunn Michael Estes [6] Joyce Farr (t) Marc Fevre, 1996 (t) Ruth (Colby) Fry, 1993 [7] Bonnie (Brennan) Gatlin [9] Kristine Gompper (c) Mary Hamel Renata Hansen (c) Bob Hedges (c) Nancy Henry (t) Allan Heim, 1993 [7] Scott Hetherington, 1993 [7] Tanya Hoole, 1995 Jennifer Hudgins, 1994 (c) Jeanine Johnson (c) Ben Jones, 1995

Kevin Jones, 1994 Karyn Kambur, 1994 Joe Keane (Z-POP), 1994 (c) Kimberly Kendall, 1995 Gail Kirst, 1994 David Knupp, 1993 Adrienne Krause, 1995 Leslie LaFontaine, 1994 Nicole Lambo (t) Mark Lammers, 1993 Deborah Levesque (c) Sue Layman Peter Livengood, 1992 Joseph McConnell (c) Mike Melton, 1994 [7] Drue Miller, 1992 Eva Morrison (c) Fritz Mueller (Z-POP), 1994 (c) Sue Olsen, 1993 John Payne, 1993 Kristen Porter, 1992 Eric (schwa) Pivnik, 1993 Steve Ragghianti, 1996 (c) Shelly Reetz (t) Joel Reymont (Z-Forms [3]), 1993 Al Rubin (c) Chris Ryan, 1993 Chris Scholter (t) Chuck Schwartz, 1993 Robert Serbent, 1994 Dan Shannon (c) Diane Smith (t) Katie Stelmack, 1993 Kelly Stewart, 1994 Kim Stewart, 1994 Mario Ubaldi, 1993 Bob Ulias, 1993 Ulf Zimmerman, 1995 (c)

Converts from NCD

Paul Boutin, 1994 Micki Ferris, 1994 Dwayne Hull, 1996 (c) Barbara Tallent, 1994 Reinhardt Quelle, 1995	Executive Management Bill Crane, GM, 1994 Jeff Raice, Sales, 1994
NCD Software Z-Mail Specialists [8] Bill Busler (Tampa, SE) Donny Cloussen (Phoenix, Sales) Sabe Ellis (Denver, SE) Paul Kincaid-Smith (Vancouver, SE) Larry Kreitzer (New York, Sales)

[1]Those who had ``offices'' in Dan Heller's living room, however briefly. This does not diminish the stature of the rest of the 1992 crew, particularly Greg, Bob, and Steve; but I had to pick a cutoff somewhere.

[2]Kim was the only other survivor from the living room days all the way through NetManage shutting us down. Words cannot suffice.

[3]These products were never released.

[4]There was only one release of the OpenLook version. Few, if any, copies were shipped.

[5]Please do not confuse this with ``Z-Mail Pro'' from NetManage. No one from Z-Code had anything to do with ``Z-Mail Pro.''

[6]Mike Estes is infamous for two reasons. First, he came to Z-Code from NCD before NCD purchased us; second, he was an employee for less than a day. This should have told us something.

[7]A bunch of die-hards. They even went on to NetManage, at least for a while.

[8]Besides working closely with us during 1995, all of these people came to the restored Z-Code division when NCD Software broke up again. All but Donny accepted offers from NetManage. Other NCD Software people, other than management, who were involved with Z-Mail, include:

SE

Paul Cavanaugh (Chicago), Stuart Navaren (New York), Andrew Rouch (Australia), Mike Szfranski (Federal), Pete Williams (London)

Sales

Rhonda Ball (Chicago), Noel Brumley (Australia), Roger Kobylarczyk (aka Koby, Denver), Wayne Purboo (Toronto), Scott Taylor (New York), Kevin Wall (Vancouver)

[9]Died, of cancer, 24 April 2002.

If you can help me with the start date or URL for anybody on this page, please do. Sorry I don't remember them all, but sometimes the whole experience is a blur.

Many thanks go to Bob Glickstein's phone map series for providing names that I would otherwise have missed. Thanks to Reinhardt Quelle for the full list of NCD Software people.

Did you figure out what underlined dates mean? Did I miss any?

There is still one logo missing () that I'd like to include:

The Z-Mail postage stamp (1991)

The icon for Z-Mail 2.0 resembled a canceled postage stamp.

Z-Coders with underlined dates broke the acquisition barrier, February 1994.

Here it is, 1998, and still new Z stuff shows up.