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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 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.<\/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 specific definition of this SIG was found in a document on one of the disks: \u201cThis 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.\u201d<\/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 exist in such archives even if they existed.<\/p>\n
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This post includes the contents of LOSTDA.DOC. This is an STD survey. I’m not sure how or if it was incorporated into the ‘Close Encounters’ SIG on Delphi.<\/p>\n
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\nLOSTDA.DOC
\n===<\/p>\n \nThis is a survey that was handed out at a panel on STD - sexually \ntransmitted diseases.\n \nPlease read it; fill in your own copy of it and send it to:\n\n Ruth B. Kaplan\n P. O. Box 330\n Old Westbury, N.Y. 11568\n \nMs. kaplan asks you to feel free to add any additional comments, stories, or\nideas you may have. Also you may remain anonymous if you choose. And she \npledges not to contact you if you do not wish it.\n \nShe is doing this survey in connection with a book that she is writing. When\nyou send her your copy of this survey you might mention that it was the \nsurvey that was handed out at the NASFIC Science Fiction Convention in \nAustin, Texas over Labor Day weekend 1985.\n\nP. I. General Information:\n\n1. Optional: name\n2. Optional: address\n3. Do you wish to be contacted for a follow-up? Yes? No?\n4. Where did you grow up?\n Northeast Southwest\n South Great Lakes\n Midwest Outside Continental U S\n Rocky Mountains \n Moved around: Northwest Other\n5. Were you raised practicing an organized religion? Yes? No?\n If yes, what?\n \nP. II. Personal Information:\n\n1. Age?\n2. Male? or Female? \n3. Partner of preference?\n Male? Female? either? neither?\n4. How many partners have you had?\n 0 1-5 6-10 11-20 more don't know\n \nP. III. Experience with sexually transmitted disease:\n\n1. Optional: have you ever had a sexually transmitted disease or\n veneral disease (vd)? Yes? No?\n if yes, which?\n was it treated by a doctor?\n how did you feel about it?\n2\u00ab\u00e1Hav\u03c3\u00e1 yo\u2321\u00e1 eve\u2265 kno\u2248n someon\u03c3 wh\u2229 ha\u03a3 a sexually transmitte\u03a3 \u00ec\n disease? Yes? No?\n relationship to u?\n which sexually transmitted disease?\n how did it affect your relationship?\n3\u00ab Doe\u2264\u00e1 fea\u2265 o\u03bc catchin\u03c4 \u00df sexuall\u2219 transmitte\u03a3 diseas\u03c3\u00e1 affec\u2320 \u00ec\u00e8 your sex life? Yes? No?\n if yes, how?\n if no, why not?\n4. How would you know if your partner had a sexually transmitted disease? \n what would you look for?\n5. How & when would you tell an established partner you had caught a \n sexually transmitted disease?\n a new\/prospective partner?\n6. Where, how & when did you first learn about sexually transmitted disease's? \n what did you hear?\n7. How would you feel if a prospective partner asked you if you had a sexually \n transmitted disease?\n if you had a sexually transmitted disease would you lie?\n8. If you heard a rumor that one of your partners had a sexually transmitted \n disease, what would you do?\n would you confront them with it? how?\n9. If you thought you had a sexually transmitted disease, would you go\n to your usual doctor? Yes? No? \n if not why not? where would you go?\n10. If there is anything not covered by the survey you would like to tell me\nabout, please do it here:\n \n<\/pre>\n
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