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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 description 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 TIGLON3.DOC. The file is dated September 24th, 1985. It contains an electronic newsletter that reported on various happenings on Delphi and was distributed to subscribers via Delphi’s e-mail system. The newsletter itself (and the e-mail) is dated September 23rd, 1985. Topics include a new poem and short story on the Close Encounters SIG, long distance savings via GTE Telenet, a new feature to disable call waiting when dialing out, a question about waxing skis, and more.<\/p>\n

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read 9\n\n\n    #9          23-SEP-1985 20:13:28                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::TIGLON      \nTo:     @ FRIENDS\nSubj:   ISSUE THREE OF ...\n\n\n                       =====================\n                       = T I G * L I N E S =\n                       =====================\n\n\nMonday, September 23, 1985\nIssue 3 Volume 1\nTIGLON Productions 1985\nAll Rights Reserved\n\n\n\n=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*\n\nWelcome to the third edition of our little paper. The population of readers is\ngrowing and Delphi's mail control is running a little better now! Hopefully\nevery little bug on our Delphi system will be gone in a couple of weeks. In the\nmeantime, HAPPY TELE-READING!!!!\n\n==============================================================================\n\nThe SEN command is now working in the SIG's at the > prompts. Also the double\n\/sen seems to have disappeared from the system! Try the new \/sen on a friend or\nmake a friend by \/sen HELLO!\n\n=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*\n\nOur very own MADONNA has uploaded her latest poem entilted \"I Can Almost Feel\nYou\" in the Close Encounters SIG. The poem is located in the Poetry Database.\n\nTIGLON has also just uploaded a short story \"For My Love\" and it is in the\nFantasies Database.\n\nIf you are not already a member of the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS SIG, drop by and sign\nup to get in on all the COnferences and the excellent material available in\nthe Databases and maybe upload your works!!!!\n\nYour hosts are CABUYS (Connie) and JOHNMYSELF (Myself). The next COnference is\ncoming soon. Sign up now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\n==============================================================================\n\nGTE TELENET *PURSUIT*\n---------------------\n\nGTE Telenet now offers evening and weekend long distance savings for BBS and\nNetwork callers. The service charges a flat monthly fee and saves you up to 75%\nover regular and long distance companies. Telenet offers this service for 12\ncities as of this printing and have stated more to follow. Check the 800 number\nfor the cities, or the article can be found in the Telecommunication Database\nin the *Commodore *Flagship* SIG here on Delphi.\n\nThe MODEM number for Telenet information is 1-800-835-3001.\n\n=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*\n\nDO YOU HATE YOUR CALL WAITING?\n------------------------------\n\nBut you can't live without it if you only have one line in your house and it\nis always on-line??? MA Bell has finally helped those of us with that SIMPLE\nproblem. Yes friends.......\n\n                MA BELL FIXES THE CALL WAITING DUMP!!!\n\nNow before you go on-line to any of your networks or local Bulletin Boards,\njust dial 70 (for touch tone phones) or 1170 (for dial phones) and the number\nyou wish to call. The *other* callers will not be able to bump you off-line\nanymore! The =fix= works until you disconnect, so the next call you will have\nto use the =fix= again.\n\nI hope this helps all of us with the Call Waiting blues!!\n\n(taken from \"Openline\" July 1985, Pacific Bell publications)\n\n\n==============================================================================\n     PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!\n==============================================================================\n\nNext week in TIG*LINES, our very own DEAR MAX will be premiering with his now\nfamous column. He is now taking questions and comments addressed to TIGLON's\nemail box until he gets his own. Hurry and get your questions to him before\nSunday night's deadline!\n\n\n==============================================================================\n                    THE TIG*QUESTION OF THE WEEK\n==============================================================================\n\n                  DID YOU WAX YOUR SKIES LAST SEASON???\n\nIf not friends..now is the time! Snow is coming down in the West Coast Sierras\nand awaiting all those fresh new legs attached to those bindings! WAX NOW!\nDon't delay!!!! See ya on the slopes!!\n\n\n******************************************************************************\nA *special* GET WELL QUICK NOTE goes out to our very own DEB who seems to be a\nbit under the computer desk this week. If you see her on-line in her *Commodore\n*Flagship* SIG, give her a warm hello and maybe a tissue or three.\n******************************************************************************\n\n\n--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*\nIf your birthday or other special occasion is coming up, please let us know\nhere at TIG*LINES! We think EVERYONE is worth mentioning every week in our\nelectronic pages!!\n--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*\n\n\nTill next week my fellow 'puter friends,\n                                HAPPY TELE-READING!!!\n\n\n\nTIGLON\nPublisher of TIG*LINES\nA TIGLON Production 1985\nAll comments and suggestions to TIGLON\n\n\n\n\n\nMAIL> re\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 description 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-33993","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\/33993","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=33993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33995,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions\/33995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}