{"id":25774,"date":"2020-11-09T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25774"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:19:27","slug":"digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/09\/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 10)"},"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 PERSONS.DOC and lists the handles (or aliases) and names of the various SIG sysops.<\/p>\n

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

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read pers\nName: PERSONNEL ROSTER\nType: TEXT\nDate: 9-NOV-1985 15:25 by ELLISCO\nSize: 4045\n\nThis is a roster of the usernames and real names of the people who work the\nvarious SIGs and at DELPHI.  Please let me know if there are any additions\/\ncorrections\/deletions, etc. that need to be made.\n\nDick [ELLISCO]\n\nKeywords: CONF, PEOPLE, NAMES, SIGS, DELPHI, USERNAME, REALNAME\n\nACTION> list\nUsername: ALEXLANE    Nmae: Alex Lane                Programming SIG\nUsername: ASMCOR      Name: Jan Eugenides            Apple SIG\nUsername: ATRICK      Name: Alan Trick               Wang SIG\nUsername: BILLEAST    Name: Bill Eastburn            Commodore SIG\nUsername: BOBSTOUT    Name: Bob Stout                MANIAC\nUsername: BOZART      Name: ROBERT SIMMS             BOZART\nUsername: BUSSIGMGR   Name: Paul Wilczynski          Business Forum\nUsername: CABUYS      Name: Connie Buys              Close Encounters\nUsername: CHIP        Name: chip matthes             DELPHI\nUsername: CHRISALLEN  Name: CHRIS ALLEN              Programming SIG\nUsername: CHUCKG      Name: CHUCK GREENSLIT          DELPHI\nUsername: CKAISER     Name: CHRIS KAISER             Commodore SIG\nUsername: CLWINC      Name: Mark Woodward            PAN\nUsername: CNS         Name: Jeffrey Greek            Commodore SIG\nUsername: CURL        Name: John Curl                CoCo SIG\nUsername: DAN         Name: DAN BRUNS                DELPHI\nUsername: DANDOWNARD  Name: Dan Downard              CoCo SIG\nUsername: DANNYDOS    Name: Danny Humphress          MS-DOS SIG\nUsername: DEB         Name: Deb Christensen          Commodore SIG\nUsername: DEOGBURN    Name: Chris Deogburn           Games SIG\nUsername: DICKB       Name: Dick Brudzynski          Atari SIG\nUsername: EDELLERS    Name: Ed Ellers                CoCo SIG\nUsername: ELLENK      Name: ELLEN KAUFMAN            MANIAC\nUsername: ELLISCO     Name: Dick Evans               TIIN\/Inside\n\nELLISCO>> Agape, again, this time from Inside\nUsername: EPIX        Name: Bill Brickley            Epson SIG\nUsername: FRANKS      Name: Frank Scudder            DELPHI\nUsername: FRETWELL    Name: Cecil Fretwell           Apple SIG\nUsername: FRIED       Name: BOB FRIED                MANIAC\nUsername: GBL         Name: Gary Little              Apple SIG\nUsername: GERRYGOLD   Name: GERRY GOLD               TPUG\nUsername: GLENN       Name: GLENN MCINTYRE           DELPHI\nUsername: HAND        Name: Jeff Hand                Personal WELLth\nUsername: HOWARDG     Name: Howard Gazes             MANIAC\nUsername: JIMREED     Name: Jim Reed                 CoCo SIG\nUsername: JOEY        Name: Joe Varvarovsky          Close Encounters\nUsername: JOHNEASTON  Name: John Easton              TPUG\nUsername: JOHNMYSELF  Name: John Yerger              Close Encounters\nUsername: JOHNWG      Name: JOHN W. GIBNEY           DELPHI\nUsername: JSP         Name: Steve Plegge             Commodore SIG\nUsername: KIP         Name: KIP BRYAN                DELPHI\nUsername: KIRBY       Name: Belinda Kirby            MS-DOS SIG\nUsername: LFALK       Name: Lonnie Falk              MS-DOS\/CoCo\nUsername: MIDDLETON   Name: John Middleton           Business Forum\nUsername: MORGAN      Name: David Lochhead           Theological Network\nUsername: MORTIMER    Name: Dave Thomas              Portable Place\nUsername: NICKOLS     Name: Kevin Nickols            MS-DOS SIG\nUsername: NJOHNSON    Name: Nancy Johnson            Theological Network\nUsername: PAN         Name: PERRY LEOPOLD            PAN\nUsername: PEABO       Name: Peter Olson              Mac\/Apple\/Inside\nUsername: PWISNER     Name: Peter Wisner             Atari SIG\nUsername: PYTHIA      Name: ELLEN KAUFMAN            MANIAC\nUsername: RANDYH      Name: Randy Holcomb            TI Information Net\nUsername: RETELLE     Name: Bob Retelle              MANIAC\nUsername: RICKP       Name: Rick Perry               Portable Place\nUsername: RICKSTERLINGName: RICK STERLING            MANIAC\nUsername: ROBLOCKWOOD Name: Rob Lockwood             TPUG\nUsername: RONL        Name: Ron Luks                 Atari SIG\nUsername: RUSSW       Name: Russ Wetmore             Atari SIG\nUsername: SCORPIA     Name: SCORPIA                  Games SIG\nUsername: SOFTAFFAIR  Name: BRYAN EGGERS             Tandy SIG\nUsername: WANGMGR     Name: Allen Trick              Wang SIG\nUsername: WES         Name: WES KUSSMAUL             DELPHI\n\n\nACTION>                                                                                             \n<\/grin><\/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":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-25774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-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\/25774","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=25774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}