{"id":26706,"date":"2021-04-30T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=26706"},"modified":"2021-04-30T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T05:12:39","slug":"digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-10-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/04\/30\/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-10-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #10 (part 4)"},"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 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 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 be in such archives even if they existed.<\/p>\n

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This post includes the contents of CONEW2.DOC. The file is dated October 20th, 1985 and contains a list of what appears to be weekly conference (or chat) topics for most of October.<\/p>\n

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

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 2  19-OCT  BRIEF CO TOPIC\n\n The topic for tonights conference will be:\n\n         Why get married.\n\n Thanks to Liz (KAPLAN), Jane (LOOP) and Marti (ILLUSION)\n for this suggestion.\n\n\n 4  12-OCT  BRIEF CONFERENCE TONIGHT\n\n The topic for tonights discussion will be 'Sex Magazines <penthouse etal>':  Who buys\/reads them and why.\n\n Conference will start as usual at 9:30 pm eastern time.\n\n\n 12   5-OCT  BRIEF CONFERENCE MATERIAL\n\n Last week in the Close Encounters Conference, we started talking\n about 'sexual positions'.\n\n Unfortunately, we all seemed to be at a loss for talking, really,\n about the subject.\n\n What are our favorite positions?; Why do we like that (those)?; and\n etc.\n\n This week, I would like to return to the topic and <a little late>\n will be seeding the discussion by leaving messages in the forum\n section.\n\n While I am not an authority in this matter (field) I do have a few\n ideas and maybe some opinions. <so what else is new?>\n\n^ZA\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 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 \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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-26706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-66","tag-delphi","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706","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=26706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}