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. 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 be in such archives even if they existed.
With this post, I start looking at the contents of a new disk. This one includes the contents of AGREENEW.DOC which is dated September 24th, 1985. This looks to be the “about” info for the Close Encounters SIG or, based on the name of the file, perhaps the info displayed when you subscribe to/sign up for/enter the SIG.
See the previous post here.
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AGREENEW.DOC
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The Close Encounters Special Interest Group is a place for adults to meet and discuss anything pertaining to sexuality. Because the sig is intended for ADULTS ONLY, there is an age restriction of 18 or older to become a member. This restriction, tho difficult to verify via this medium, will be enforced should someone under the age limit attempt to join and be discovered. Whether or not you decide to join the Close Encounters sig, we invite you to check out the information in the General Database and the General Information section of the Forum, as well as the hints in the HELP section.
