Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 6)
It’s been a long time…like the better part of a year…but the series goes on…
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 several 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 exist in such archives even if they existed.
This post includes the contents of MEMBERS.DOC. This appears to be the member list of the Close Encounters SIG as of October 11th, 1985 (the date of the file).
See the previous post here.
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MEMBERS.DOC
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Username: Name:
12TARA *BAD BOY*
1BOB Bob Eller
2010 Mike Smith
ACE Rick
AH David
AHH alan heyman
ALESSAN John
AMTRAKMAN Al Voci
ANDERSON Diana
ANDRE Andre
ARNE Arne Strand
ATARIONE CARL WILHOIT
BAODAI Nelson LeMay
BENDAILY ben
BGS Bruce
BILLEAST Bill Eastburn
BINARY Paul Lustenberger
BITSLINGER Mike Bispeck
BOBB Bob
BOBW Bob
BREN Brenda
BRUCE1 Bruce James
BSK309 STEVE LEWIS
BUSSIGMGR Paul
CABUYS Connie - Sig Manager
CALW cal wasson
CATHEE Cathee A
CDVARN CHRIS
CENTERFIRE Jim
CHAMELEON KHANH MAI
CHARLESD charles dite
CHESSIE Bob Kitchen
CHEVALIER Ken
CHM chuck
CHRISALLEN Chris Allen
CHRISLOCK Chris Wehner
CIA325283 Hasan Ciawi
CL3030 Rog Carpenter
CLEARSTAR Dan
CLYDETURBO
CNS Jeff Greek
COL TOM
CONSORT Sig Managers - SLG Associates
CROSSCUTS TURNON
CSG01
CYBERLEADER Jim Reiss
DAGO TONY
DALEK Y
DAN D. Bruns
DANNYDOS Danny
DASERVICEINC
DAVEIRV David Irvine
DAVIDBERKLAN daveb
DAVIDFULFORD David Fulford
DAVROS Jon
DBRYANT David Bryant
DEARMAX Max Strips
DEDHED MIKE SAUVE
DEEPAK Deepak Midha
DEOGBURN Chris deOgburn
DIAPHANOUS
DICKDERY DICK DERY
DIMPLES Dimples Jones
DIRIGO Bert
DJR Dan
DOCTORC NORMAN
DONUTS Marie
DORA Lin Koeppel
DOUGLEVY Doug
DRAGONLORD Tim Aman
DRBOB408 Bob
DRGOLD Duane Goldsworthy
ELECTRO Electro
ELH Ed Haswell
ELLENK Ellen
ELLISCO Dick
EMK EMIL
ERK ERICK EDWARDS
ESG Gene
EVPHRD Mike
EXCELSIOR Maximilian (Max For Friends)
FINGERTIPS Jay Pondy
FORPLAY bill
FRIDAY Rich
FRIED Bob
FROGBOY
FSF Dan
GASMAN2 John
GEORGEK George
GERRYGOLD
GLYNN25 GREG LYNN
GRED John
GREYWOLF JOE GERSTEMEIER
GUACAMOLE John Williamson
GUSTAVE Gustave
GWMCQ geotge
HANSOLO John
HAPAZARD LOUIS HAZARD
HATCHERY Rick Curl
HORNET Roger McMillian
HOTLACE karen winnett
IDEL Greg
ILLUMINATUS William
ILLUSION Marti
INTECO Uwe Goetzke
JACKMARVIN shawna
JARED Jared
JCG Joel
JEANLUC John M Christensen
JFOLEY
JIMH James Hopper
JJM Jay
JOEY Joe - SysOp
JOHNMYSELF John - Asst. Manager
JOHNNAPLES John
JOHNP John Peterson
JOHNWG J. W. Gibney
JOSEPH Joseph
JWSTEMPER JOHN STEMPER
K9 MIKE SMITH
KAPLAN Elizabeth F. Kaplan
KASSIMALEX00 alex kassim
KB6LE George Lanning
KEEBEE KEITH BELDEN
KELLY K. Thebodo
KENNIT K. S. Criscione
KEVINB Kevin
KIRBY Belinda
KISKA Joe
KRANKY Bill
KZIN Mike Banks
LADYLAW Mary Helm
LADYLOVE Connie
LASRDISC Kevin L. Norwood
LFJ FRANK
LG1 Bernard Turek
LODDP Daniel Phillips
LOOP jane
LOUSCHNEIDER Lou Schneider
LVEAL Lee Veal
MACALLEN Mac Mathis
MACULA Frank Curl
MADHACKER Jim Nangano
MADONNA Libby
MAEWEST
MARS pegasus
MAW MIKE
MENU SoapSuds
MHW Michael H. Wahler
MIKEADAMS Mac Ada ms
MIRANDA not yet
MISSISSIP david barnett
MLJEX Mike
MLR Lee
MMB Michael M. Bosen
MOJO Morris Jones
MPA Mike
MTEWAL MELVIN EDDLESTON
NAVYDAVY DAVID TYCE
NHOJ John LaStar
NICKOLS Kevin Nickols
NICKX Nick
NJOHNSON Nancy
NUKE Douglas Alexander
NYLADY Karen
OSPAT PATRICK MCINTYRE
P1 Bill Pytlovany
PAKWAX HAL
PATSULLIVAN Patrick
PAULHOPK Paul Hopkins
PAULLEWIS Paul Lewis
PCMMAG PCM Magazine
PEEWEE LEE HANDY
PETERKAR PETER KARWOWSKI
PETEVO Pete
PGS PGS
PHANTASY Keith Vogt
PHREAK Smith
PHROBIE Pete Roberts
PIANOMAN Tom
PIPEMAN Brian
PMSINC Jeff
POPE John Paul
PRAIRIESUN jackson clubb
PRINCESS Peggy
PRINCETONFIN
PRK Paul
PTS phil
QSOFTDEMARG Javier
QUICKRODNEY John
QUINCY JEFF BECK
RADCOM Lee
RANGERS Peter
RAR3 Robert Rogers
RAYGEDDES Ray
RBS Bob
RH Rich
RHODGE Rusty Hodge
RICKER Eric
RIDPATH Richard Parker
RJM513 RJ Miles
ROARK KEVIN SMITH
RODM Rod
ROGO JOHN ROGOWSKI
RONDEAN Ron
RONMAZUR Ron
SARISKY mark sarisky
SCHONBERGER Steve
SCOT greg
SEEKAY Charlie Kestner
SHARC Shawn Tigrett
SHERM Tom
SHRINK Jay
SIGH
SKM Steve
SKMOYER Steve
SMENCIK Steve Mencik
SMILE Smile
SODAPOP
SOFTAFFAIR Bryan Eggers
SPACENET spacey
SPARKY Mark
SPIDER John Mezzanotte
SPIKEYS ROBERT BRAUNSTEIN
SR Steve Ramirez
SRJ scott jacobson
STANKRUTE Stan Krute
STARLORD Lee Handy
STEVENAGREM steve nagrem
STUART Stuart
SUMMER Steve
SUZIE Bill 
