{"id":35484,"date":"2025-05-18T18:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=35484"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:11:37","slug":"digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-dm0127-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-dm0127-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 \u2013 DM0127.DOC"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/center>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 DM0127.DOC. It contains what looks like an e-mail reading session with e-mails dated in late January 1985. There are only a couple of e-mails here including one from a new member of “TFC”, presumably referring to “The Friendship Circle” Special Interest Group. This was either another Special Interest Group run by “Connie” or it became “Close Encounters”.<\/p>\n

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\n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #1\n\nFrom:   CSG01          27-JAN-1985 11:28  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   JUST TO SAY HI!\n\n\n\nSorry I missed you ..chatted with Grey Wulfe..and he said\n\nyou were an extremely busy lady..Your who\/is also\n\nshows that..Catch you again..sometime..\n\n\n\nThanks for the TFC passwords..just getting started with\n\nthis hobby..and afraid am hooked on it!..\n\n\n\nWarmest regards,\n\nSarah..\n\n\n\nexit\n\n\nMAIL> re\n\nTo:     CSG01\n\nSubj:  RE: JUST TO SAY HI!\n\nEnter your message below. Press CTRL\/Z when complete, CTRL\/C to\n quit:\nSarah, I\bit's true that I'm busy, but I always try to make\ntime as soon as I can for new TFC members.\n\nI'm glad you joined us.  But, beware! it is very addicting\nand very exciting! <smile>\n\nTalk to you soon!\n-Connie\n^Z\n\n\nPress RETURN to return to reading your mail\n\nMAIL> d\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #1\n\nFrom:   DEOGBURN       27-JAN-1985 11:54  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   RE: some suggestions\n\n\n\nSome very good points connie.  Yes, no more sessions on Saturda\ny I promise.\n\nPlease be aware that an a agenda was sent out to all of you 2 w\neeks ago, however\n\nwe did tend to jump around quite a bit, but we did cover everyt\nhing I planned, some\n\na little to brief than I planned.\n\n\n\n  Thanks for the suggestions, the one on using \/Send for hellos\n and bye's I will enforce.\n\n\n\nChris\nMAIL> d\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 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":35485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-35484","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\/35484","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=35484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35486,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions\/35486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}