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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 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.<\/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 be in such archives even if they existed.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThis post includes the contents of RULES2.DOC and contain the rules for a “Sexual Fantasy” writing contest that ran from November 15, 1985 until December 15, 1985.<\/p>\n
See the previous post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n === 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 \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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2382,2913,2362,3728],"class_list":["post-26225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-computer","tag-delphi","tag-retrocomputing","tag-telecommunication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26225","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=26225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n===<\/p>\n \n.lt\n\n Close Encounters Sig\n Sexual Fantasy Contest Rules.\n\n This month in Close Encounters, we will be starting\n a 'sexual fantasy' contest.\n\n This contest will run from November 15, 1985 to\n December 15, 1985.\n\n All members of the Close Encounters Sig, except for\n the sig managers, sysops, and members of their immediate\n families, are eligible to play regardless of when they\n joined the Sig.\n\n The rules are simple. Write a sexual fantasy and submit\n it for consideration to the 'LADYLOVE' account via dmail\n only. If you have trouble sending mail to LADYLOVE, you may\n send your entry to any sig manager\/sysop.\n\n The winner will be the person whose fantasy is judged to be\n the best overall in form, content, originality, and attention\n to detail.\n\n At the end of the contest, those entries properly submitted\n will be forwarded to an independent panel of five judges.\n It is expected that judging could take up to a full week\n to complete.\n\n Entries must be received by midnight on December 15, 1985.\n Eligibility of entries will be based on the date\/time stamp\n in the dmail file(s).\n\n You may submit more than one entry, however each entry must\n be a separate mailing. The winner will be announced in the\n Sig Forum section under the 'Playground' topic. All entries\n will become the property of SLG Associates and The Close\n Encounters Sig and will be added to the Sig Database\n \"Playground\" topic.\n\n The decision of the judges will be final.\n\n Of course there will be prizes.\n\n Otherwise why have the contest at all? The winner will\n receive a payment to their Delphi account in the amount of\n $20.00 which will be mailed immediately following the\n decision of the judges.\n\n Disclaimer\n\n The above contest rules are subject to change without notice\n as is the value and method of issue of prizes.\n\n SLG Associates responsibility for collection and accounting\n of valid entries will extend only to such entries actually\n received via the electronic mail facility of Delphi in\n accordance with the rules stated above.\n\n^ZW\n\n\n
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