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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:<\/p>\n
I found a bunch 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.<\/p>\n
Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie A. Buys who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.<\/p>\n
A specific definition of this SIG was found in a previous document on one of the disks: \u201cThis SIG, known as \u201cClose Encounters\u201d, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything was text based from whatever terminal program you used to dial in to Delphi\u2019s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don\u2019t 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 some of it is quite personal.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI’ve been splitting up the contents of this disk (descriptively labeled \u201cFile Disk\u201d) since it contains a number of documents, some of which are pretty long. A 5.25″ floppy disk can still hold an impressive amount of info when it is just text. (see the previous parts here: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a>, 17<\/a>, 18<\/a>).<\/p>\n This is apparently a partial repost of an article from Glamour magazine. Does anybody know if “graphology” is still a thing?<\/p>\n === A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series: I found a bunch 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 A. Buys who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s. A specific definition of this SIG was found in a previous document on one of the disks: \u201cThis SIG, known as \u201cClose Encounters\u201d, 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.\u201d Everything was text based from whatever terminal program you used to dial in to Delphi\u2019s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don\u2019t know if there are any archives in existence today of what was on Delphi in the 1980s. In any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2363,2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-computer-arcana","tag-delphi","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n===<\/p>\n\r\n\r\nA classic of the pop wisdom genre comes via sexual analyses from\r\nhandwriting experts in Glamour magazine.\r\n\r\nBe informed that well-rounded loops on letters \"indicate erotic\r\npassion and emotional warmth,\" loops that don't close \"show\r\nunfulfilled sexual fantasies\" and loops that float to the left\r\n\"indicate a man who needs mothering.\"\r\n\r\nThe implication here is clear: Before a first date, single women\r\nshould demand a letter of introduction.\r\n\r\nIn case that sounds like so much faddish mumbo-jumbo to you, consider\r\nthat more than 2,000 American companies are making personnel decisions\r\nwith the help of graphology.\r\n\r\nGraphologist Barbara Harding says that by studying written strokes, a\r\nprofessional can gain an insight into a person's personal traits,\r\ntalents, and motivations.\r\n\r\n\"Handwriting is actually 'brainwriting.' The brain directs the nerves\r\nand muscles of the writing process; the hand merely holds the pen.\" \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"