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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 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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This post includes the contents of MENU.DOC which is dated September 24nd, 1985. While perhaps not as interesting as some other files, this one does contain a little insight into how Delphi operated. This is a screen capture of going through and configuring a couple of menus. The more commands you could memorize, the shorter you could make the menus which was a big deal when you were communicating at 2400bps or less.<\/p>\n

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

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^Z\n\nMAIN> ?\n\n\nMAIN Menu:\n\nBulletin Boards       News-Weather-Sport\nConference            People on DELPHI\nDELPHI Mail           Travel\nEntertainment         Workspace\nFinancial Services    Using DELPHI\nGroups and Clubs      HELP\nLibrary               EXIT\nMerchants' Row\n\nMAIN>What do you want to do? using\n\nUSING-DELPHI> ?\n\n\nUSING-DELPHI Menu:\n\nAdvice From DELPHI      What's New On DELPHI\nCredit Policy           Rates and Prices\nFeedback                Settings (PROFILE)\nGuided Tour             Telex-Codes\nMail To SERVICE         Usage History\nManuals                 HELP\nNetwork Info            EXIT\nPremium Services\n\nUSING-DELPHI>(Please Select an Item)> settings\n\nSETTINGS> ?\n\n\nSETTINGS Menu:\n\nWIDTH (Columns)             PROMPT Mode\nLENGTH (Lines\/page)         TERMINAL Type\nMENU (Default Selection)    HELP\nPASSWORD (Change)           EXIT\n\nSETTINGS>What would you like to set? prompt\n\nYour current prompt mode is: 1 (Brief)\nSelect type of prompt.\n(1, 2 or 3)  1\n\nYour prompt has been set to 1 (Brief)\n\nSETTINGS> menu\n\nYour current default menu item is: MAIN\n\nDefault Menu Item:  gr clo\n\nYou have selected the GR CLO menu.\n\n\nSETTINGS> ^Z\n\n*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*\nClose Encounters - The Intimate Side\n   of Computer Telecommunications\n       (c) 1985 SLG Associates\n*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*\n\n\nENCOUNTER>\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 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":32286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-32285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/32285","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=32285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32288,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32285\/revisions\/32288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}