{"id":25955,"date":"2021-01-07T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:49:58","slug":"digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-9-part-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #9 (part 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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: “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.”<\/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 POLLMEM.DOC and contains some poll results from October 22, 1985.<\/p>\n

See the previous post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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res\n\nWhich poll results do you want to see (type \"?\" for list)? sig\n\nSIG MEMBERS, created by JOHNMYSELF.\nCreation date: OCT 22,1985\n\nIn recent polls the votes cast indicate a user population of relatively small\nsize.  Just out of curiosity, how many members do you think Close  Eencounters\nhas?\n\nCHOICE              VOTES   PERCENT\n------              -----   -------\n3 to 6                 0     0%\n7 to 10                0     0%\n11 to 14               0     0%\n15 to 30               3     20%\n31 to 40               3     20%\n41 to 50               4     26%\n51 to 100              4     26%\nover 100               1     6%\n                    -----\nTOTAL VOTE:            15\n\nComments:\nThere are 48 Profiles and probably about that many members who haven't done\n   their Profile yet for VARIOUS reasons I assume! Wish the y would though!\nbeing online is $   delphi is unreliable as of late!!!!\nI'D SAY AROUND 50, ALTHOUGH YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT BY LOOKING IN THE FORUM.\nA wild guess, as I think about it more onlly a very few people have submitted\n   things t the sig.  I think the reason for this as anew member is all the\n   plays on words and provate jokes the people have.  I wish this sig was a\n   little more direct so a new member like myself could partici\nI'm new around here so you can't really count this.\n\nVOTE on this poll? (Y\/N) y\n\nIn recent polls the votes cast indicate a user population of relatively small\nsize.  Just out of curiosity, how many members do you think Close  Eencounters\nhas?\n\nList of voting choices: \n\n1  3 to 6\n2  7 to 10\n3  11 to 14\n4  15 to 30\n5  31 to 40\n6  41 to 50\n7  51 to 100\n8  over 100\n\nVote for which choice? (? for list) ^Z\n\nPOLL> \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u201cClose Encounters\u201d 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\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. […]<\/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":[2913,2042,2362],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-delphi","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","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=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}