A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:
I found a number of 5.25″ disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a while back. Since then I have been posting the contents here.
Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.
A specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: “This SIG, known as ‘Close Encounters’, is a forum for the discussion of relationships that develop via computer services like the Source, CompuServe, and Delphi. Our primary emphasis is on the sexual aspects of those relationships.”
This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any case, much of this stuff would have been private at the time and probably wouldn’t be in such archives even if they existed.
This post includes the contents of RODSPOLL.DOC dated October 26th, 1985. A bit out of order but these are the poll questions for the answers that were posted in the last post. It adds a little bit of context…
See the previous post here.
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RODSPOLL.DOC
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On October 12, 1985, we had a conference on 'sex magazines'. I was
unable to attend that conference but do have the following questions I
hope others will take the time to answer:
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1 - Do you have or did you ever have a subscription to an 'adult' magazine?
2 - Do you or have you ever purchased an adult magazine?
3 - Do you or have you ever purchased adult magazines for a least 4 consecutive months?
If you answered yes to either question 1 or 3, please answer these questions. If you answered no, please answer question 8.
4 - Did you read or view all the magazines to some extent?
5 - Did you purchase or receive more than one title adult magazine?
6 - When viewing an adult magazine did you:
a. Look at the pictures
b. Read the 'letters'
c. Read the articles
d. Scan the pages and read what gets your attention
e. All of the above
7 - What type of adult magazines have you viewed?
a. Adult material - Playboy, Penthouse, Playgirl, etc.
b. Light pornography which portrays sexual activities or subjects without 'graphic' language or explicit photographs
c. Sex related 'manuals' or 'guides'
d. Explicit sex stories with explicit language and/or pictures
8 - When time allows and you have an adult magazine available, do you ever pick it up and view it?
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