Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 9)

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 several 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 “Close Encounters” 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’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t 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 exist in such archives even if they existed.

This post includes the contents of OURS.DOC. Another message in the ongoing saga of “CABUYS” and “RODM” or Rod and Connie.

See the previous post here.

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    #9          11-NOV-1985 20:24:36                                        MAIL
From:   BOS1A::RODM        
To:     CABUYS,RODM        
Subj:   take deep breath!

 
Those    who    were    not    long    ago    in    fact    two    
  
   Are    now    in    many    ways    becoming    as   one  
 
      On  that  day  will  become  one  heart, one  life 
 
 
           When  the  waiting  ends  and  they  are 
 
 
 
 
                      Husband & Wife
 
 
                 OURS                     OURS
            OURS      OURS           OURS       OURS
         OURS           OURS       OURS            OURS
        OURS               OURS OURS                OURS
        OURS      Rod         OURS       Connie     OURS
        OURS        \                   /          OURS
         OURS         \               /           OURS
          OURS          \           /            OURS
           OURS         Husband & Wife          OURS
             OURS                             OURS        
               OURS                         OURS
                 OURS                     OURS
                   OURS                 OURS
                     OURS            OURS
                        OURS      OURS
                          OURS  OURS
                             OURS
 
I Told you!

My Darling I love you!!


Rod

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