{"id":32429,"date":"2023-12-31T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=32429"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T19:29:40","slug":"digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-morthove-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/31\/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-morthove-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 \u2013 MORTHOVE.DOC"},"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 a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then I have been occasionally posting the content 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 MORTHOVE.DOC which is dated September 17th, 1985. This is another e-mail, a love letter of sorts, from Rod to Connie. There have been a number of e-mails and chats between those two included in previous posts. As far as I can tell, they met via Delphi. Yes, meeting online goes all the way back to 1985 and earlier. Of course the entire Close Encounters SIG is a testament to that.<\/p>\n

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

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read 2\n\n    #2          17-SEP-1985 14:22:09                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   I made up the word!\n\nMy Beloved Connie,\n \nIf  you  recall that several times I have mentioned that I needed a word  that \nmeant  more  than  'love'  because when I say 'I love  you'  it  seems  to  be \ninadequate. \n \nThen  I  found the song 'You Are The One' which refered to the  same  problem, \nwell since I have been unable to find such a word I have invented one and here \nit is:\n \nMorthove - 1.  A term or unit of measure of passion that is 1000 times that of \n               the word 'love'.\n \n           2.  A state or level of passion that is: irreversable, inalterable, \n               indescribable and has a relative magnatude of 1000 times Love.\n \n           (Root words: MOre THan lOVE)\n \n \n \nI am so morthove with you?\n \nI Morthove You!\n \nMorthove,\n \nRod\n \nP.S. Post if you wish!\n \n\n\nMAIL> \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 (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then I have been occasionally posting the content 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-32429","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\/32429","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=32429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32432,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions\/32432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}