{"id":20251,"date":"2018-05-14T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=20251"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:17:28","slug":"digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #8 (part 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series:<\/p>\n

I found a bunch 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.<\/p>\n

Based on the contents, at least some of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie A. Buys who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s.<\/p>\n

A specific definition of this SIG was found in a previous document on one of the disks: \u201cThis SIG, known as \u201cClose Encounters\u201d, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything was text based from whatever terminal program you used 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 some of it is quite personal.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been splitting up the contents of this disk (descriptively labeled \u201cFile Disk\u201d) since it contains a number of documents, some of which are pretty long. A 5.25″ floppy disk can still hold an impressive amount of info when it is just text. (see the previous parts here: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 13<\/a>, 14<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The contents of this post is from a document called ROD.DOC. A letter from Connie to Rod regarding their then new relationship. I believe this content or something very much like it was included in a previous post as part of a terminal log that involved sending the actual e-mail.<\/p>\n

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\r\n\r\nMy dearest darling Rod,\r\n\r\nI mentioned to you that there is something I wanted to put into\r\nwriting because it would be easier for me that way.\r\n\r\nI'm not sure, as I start this, whether I will send it to you dmail or\r\nwait until you are here and give you a printed copy to read then.  I\r\nwant to be able to be with you but I also want you to have time to\r\nthink thru what I'm about to say and the two conflict with each other.\r\n\r\nI would like to re-state some things we already know:\r\n\r\n1.  You've mentioned when you come to me, you will have to give up\r\nyour present job - but I'm not sure of the exact reasons behind that\r\nstatement.\r\n\r\n2.  You've said you are afraid of losing your son.  This I can very\r\nwell understand because of his age and you want to allow him time to\r\nmature a little more in the hopes he can understand later.\r\n\r\n3.  You've said your marriage would be history, which, of course, is\r\nthe only way we could be together.  This also means giving up your\r\nhome and the things you and Charlet have worked for all the past\r\nyears.\r\n\r\n4.  You've said you would be bankrupt and I am assuming you mean the\r\nfull legal implications that are involved.\r\n\r\n5.  You've indicated to me over and over again how segmented your life\r\nis.\r\n\r\nThe full realization of what you would be giving up is what led to my\r\ncomment Saturday night about \"destroying you\". \r\n\r\nI am very concerned, perhaps because I don't know all the reasons\r\nbehind your various comments listed above, that you are making such\r\nstatements and decisions in a sincere effort to put that part of your\r\nlife \"in a box on the shelf\" - to keep it entirely segmented from the\r\nlife we will have together.\r\n\r\nIf that is the case, don't you realize that there *will always be*\r\nties to the past? There will be alimony.  There will be, depending on\r\nRodney's age at the time, child support.  There will be times when you\r\nwill have to deal with Charlet for various reasons, especially when it\r\ncomes to the son the two of you have, just as there will also be times\r\nwhen I will have to deal with Chuck, even after you and I are\r\ntogether.\r\n\r\nAs for the bankruptcy, that's another matter - because it will\r\nseriously affect the starting of your own business!  Who's going to\r\nfinancially back someone who can't handle their own finances? And\r\nbelieve me, they will want to know all about your financial history!\r\n\r\nAnd, sweetheart, don't think, when it comes to your marriage, that any\r\nattorney is going to let you get away with giving up *everything* just\r\nbecause you might want to.  Believe me! I've been there.\r\n\r\nAnyway, now I've had my say and I think I will send it on to you so\r\nthat we can discuss it all in more detail when we are together.\r\nI just want to be sure you don't start putting certain things into\r\naction based on decisions you might have already made \r\n\r\nI love you so very much!\r\n\r\nLove,\r\nConnie\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A summary for those that haven’t been keeping up with this series: I found a bunch 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 A. Buys who used to run the \u201cClose Encounters\u201d Special Interest Group (SIG) on Delphi in the mid 1980s. A specific definition of this SIG was found in a previous document on one of the disks: \u201cThis SIG, known as \u201cClose Encounters\u201d, 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.\u201d Everything was text based from whatever terminal program you used 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2363,2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-20251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-computer-arcana","tag-delphi","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}