Megalextoria

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 PERSONS.DOC and lists the handles (or aliases) and names of the various SIG sysops.

See the previous post here.

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PERSONS.DOC
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read pers
Name: PERSONNEL ROSTER
Type: TEXT
Date: 9-NOV-1985 15:25 by ELLISCO
Size: 4045

This is a roster of the usernames and real names of the people who work the
various SIGs and at DELPHI.  Please let me know if there are any additions/
corrections/deletions, etc. that need to be made.

Dick [ELLISCO]

Keywords: CONF, PEOPLE, NAMES, SIGS, DELPHI, USERNAME, REALNAME

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Username: ALEXLANE    Nmae: Alex Lane                Programming SIG
Username: ASMCOR      Name: Jan Eugenides            Apple SIG
Username: ATRICK      Name: Alan Trick               Wang SIG
Username: BILLEAST    Name: Bill Eastburn            Commodore SIG
Username: BOBSTOUT    Name: Bob Stout                MANIAC
Username: BOZART      Name: ROBERT SIMMS             BOZART
Username: BUSSIGMGR   Name: Paul Wilczynski          Business Forum
Username: CABUYS      Name: Connie Buys              Close Encounters
Username: CHIP        Name: chip matthes             DELPHI
Username: CHRISALLEN  Name: CHRIS ALLEN              Programming SIG
Username: CHUCKG      Name: CHUCK GREENSLIT          DELPHI
Username: CKAISER     Name: CHRIS KAISER             Commodore SIG
Username: CLWINC      Name: Mark Woodward            PAN
Username: CNS         Name: Jeffrey Greek            Commodore SIG
Username: CURL        Name: John Curl                CoCo SIG
Username: DAN         Name: DAN BRUNS                DELPHI
Username: DANDOWNARD  Name: Dan Downard              CoCo SIG
Username: DANNYDOS    Name: Danny Humphress          MS-DOS SIG
Username: DEB         Name: Deb Christensen          Commodore SIG
Username: DEOGBURN    Name: Chris Deogburn           Games SIG
Username: DICKB       Name: Dick Brudzynski          Atari SIG
Username: EDELLERS    Name: Ed Ellers                CoCo SIG
Username: ELLENK      Name: ELLEN KAUFMAN            MANIAC
Username: ELLISCO     Name: Dick Evans               TIIN/Inside

ELLISCO>> Agape, again, this time from Inside
Username: EPIX        Name: Bill Brickley            Epson SIG
Username: FRANKS      Name: Frank Scudder            DELPHI
Username: FRETWELL    Name: Cecil Fretwell           Apple SIG
Username: FRIED       Name: BOB FRIED                MANIAC
Username: GBL         Name: Gary Little              Apple SIG
Username: GERRYGOLD   Name: GERRY GOLD               TPUG
Username: GLENN       Name: GLENN MCINTYRE           DELPHI
Username: HAND        Name: Jeff Hand                Personal WELLth
Username: HOWARDG     Name: Howard Gazes             MANIAC
Username: JIMREED     Name: Jim Reed                 CoCo SIG
Username: JOEY        Name: Joe Varvarovsky          Close Encounters
Username: JOHNEASTON  Name: John Easton              TPUG
Username: JOHNMYSELF  Name: John Yerger              Close Encounters
Username: JOHNWG      Name: JOHN W. GIBNEY           DELPHI
Username: JSP         Name: Steve Plegge             Commodore SIG
Username: KIP         Name: KIP BRYAN                DELPHI
Username: KIRBY       Name: Belinda Kirby            MS-DOS SIG
Username: LFALK       Name: Lonnie Falk              MS-DOS/CoCo
Username: MIDDLETON   Name: John Middleton           Business Forum
Username: MORGAN      Name: David Lochhead           Theological Network
Username: MORTIMER    Name: Dave Thomas              Portable Place
Username: NICKOLS     Name: Kevin Nickols            MS-DOS SIG
Username: NJOHNSON    Name: Nancy Johnson            Theological Network
Username: PAN         Name: PERRY LEOPOLD            PAN
Username: PEABO       Name: Peter Olson              Mac/Apple/Inside
Username: PWISNER     Name: Peter Wisner             Atari SIG
Username: PYTHIA      Name: ELLEN KAUFMAN            MANIAC
Username: RANDYH      Name: Randy Holcomb            TI Information Net
Username: RETELLE     Name: Bob Retelle              MANIAC
Username: RICKP       Name: Rick Perry               Portable Place
Username: RICKSTERLINGName: RICK STERLING            MANIAC
Username: ROBLOCKWOOD Name: Rob Lockwood             TPUG
Username: RONL        Name: Ron Luks                 Atari SIG
Username: RUSSW       Name: Russ Wetmore             Atari SIG
Username: SCORPIA     Name: SCORPIA                  Games SIG
Username: SOFTAFFAIR  Name: BRYAN EGGERS             Tandy SIG
Username: WANGMGR     Name: Allen Trick              Wang SIG
Username: WES         Name: WES KUSSMAUL             DELPHI


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