{"id":25711,"date":"2020-11-01T19:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:43:04","slug":"digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/01\/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie 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 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.”<\/p>\n

This service was text based and was accessed via whatever terminal program you used on your computer 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 probably wouldn’t exist in such archives even if they existed.<\/p>\n


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This post includes the contents of OURS.DOC. Another message in the ongoing saga of “CABUYS” and “RODM” or Rod and Connie.<\/p>\n

See the previous post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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                                                                                            \n\nread 9\n\n    #9          11-NOV-1985 20:24:36                                        MAIL\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   take deep breath!\n\n \nThose    who    were    not    long    ago    in    fact    two    \n  \n   Are    now    in    many    ways    becoming    as   one  \n \n      On  that  day  will  become  one  heart, one  life \n \n \n           When  the  waiting  ends  and  they  are \n \n \n \n \n                      Husband & Wife\n \n \n                 OURS                     OURS\n            OURS      OURS           OURS       OURS\n         OURS           OURS       OURS            OURS\n        OURS               OURS OURS                OURS\n        OURS      Rod         OURS       Connie     OURS\n        OURS        \\                   \/          OURS\n         OURS         \\               \/           OURS\n          OURS          \\           \/            OURS\n           OURS         Husband & Wife          OURS\n             OURS                             OURS        \n               OURS                         OURS\n                 OURS                     OURS\n                   OURS                 OURS\n                     OURS            OURS\n                        OURS      OURS\n                          OURS  OURS\n                             OURS\n \nI Told you!\n\nMy Darling I love you!!\n\n\nRod\n\nMAIL>\n \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u201cClose Encounters\u201d 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\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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","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=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}