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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 DM0909.DOC which is dated September 9th, 1985. I believe that ‘DM’ in this case stands for Direct Mail which appears to have been Delphi’s version of e-mail. This document contains several such emails from September 8th and 9th, 1985. Topics include forum management, a broken air conditioner, some song lyrics that appeared in a previous post, and items of a more personal nature.<\/p>\n

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

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   \n \n\n    #1           8-SEP-1985 20:51:29                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\nTo:     JOHNMYSELF,CABUYS      \nSubj:   Topic an\b\bnames\n\n\nEvidently some sig managers are able to change sig topics but I can't get\nours to work.\n\n(See msg 1259 in Insiders from PAN).\n\nIn the SM area I si\b\bdid manage to get a list of commands for Sig Setup that\nlist an option to name topics. but beyond that, nothing.\n\nNOt sure what's going on here but it certainly needs investigating, huh?\n\n        -Connie\n\nP.S.  I love you.\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #2           8-SEP-1985 20:51:45                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\nTo:     RODM,CABUYS      \nSubj:   I love you.\n\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #3           8-SEP-1985 21:15:21                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\nTo:     RODM,CABUYS      \nSubj:   later....\n\nHi lover!\n\nSorry but I can't be on line later.  My stomach is cramping something\nterrible. ANd my air conditioner quit. sigh.\n\nGuess I'll have to call a\/c repairman and take time off from work to be\nhere to handle that.  Wonder what else's going to go wrong!\n\nNot sure why stomach cramps but it sure hurts!\n\nso much for bad news......now the good....\n\nI LOVE YOU!\n\nLove,\nConnie\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #4           8-SEP-1985 23:18:04                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     BOS1A::CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   RE: later....\n\nMy Beloved Darling Connie,\n\nI am so sorry about the problem with your stomach please take care of yourself\n\nSorry about the air conditioner too\n\nThat will probably make your discomfort worse and there is nothing I can do to\nhelp!\n\nI will call and check on you tommorrow!\n\nI LOVE YOU !!!!!\n\nFollowing this message I am sending to you first and if you approve please \npost it on the forum under poetry a message containing the lyrics to:\n\"You Decorated My Life\".\n\nI only wish I was so talented as to have authored them for you!\n\nDarling I hope you know just how much these words say for me!\n\nI will talk to later my darling!\n\nLove,\n\nRod\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #5           9-SEP-1985 12:01:51                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   poetry\n\nSo  very  often  today  songs are writen with little or no  continuity  to  the \n\nlyrics,  the  lyrics are burried by the intensity of the beat or rhythm of  the \n\nmusic,  but every so often a song 'makes it' that has the beauty that the one I \n\nam sending has.\n \nThere  is a lot of background to why I am so affected by this song and some  of \n\nthat  might  have  even prevented my even hearing it but life  has  grabbed  my \n\nattention and caused me to find new beauty in places I might never have gone.\n \nUntil  recently I didn't listen to much music at all and CERTAINLY NOT  country \n\nmusic  but  my life was affected by several people and after  emerging  from  a \n\n'cave'  in which I was hiding I started hearing the words to songs,  seeing the \n\nfantastic things life has to give, and learned the importance sharing, feeling, \n\nand loving if life is to be worth living.\n \nI  hope that everyone that reads this knows already or will realize  very  soon \n\nexactly  who they would recite or sing these words to and perhaps give them  to \n\nthat person as the 'flower' for that day!\n \n\"You Decorated My Life\"\n  \nAll my life was a paper, once plain, pure, and white\n \n'Til you moved with your pen, changing moods now and then, 'til the balance was \n\nright\n \nThen you added some music, every note was is place\n \nAnd anybody could see all the changes in me, by the look on my face\n \n \nAnd you decorated my life. Created a world where dreams are a part\n \nAnd you decorated my life by painting your love all over my heart\n \nYou decorated my life!\n \n \nLike a rhyme with no reason in an unfinished song\n \nThere was no harmony, life meant nothing to me, until you came along\n \nAnd you brought out the colors. what a gentle surprise\n \nNow I'm able to see, all the things life can be, shining soft in your eyes\n \n \nAnd you decorated my life. Created a world where dreams are a part\n \nAnd you decorated my life,by painting your love all over my heart\n \nYou decorated my life!\n \n \n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #6           9-SEP-1985 12:09:28                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   poetry resend\n\nSo  very  often  today songs are writen with little or no  continuity  to  the \nlyrics,  the  lyrics are burried by the intensity of the beat or rhythm of the \nmusic, but every so often a song 'makes it' that has the beauty that the one I \nam sending has.\n \nThere is a lot of background to why I am so affected by this song and some  of \nthat  might  have  even prevented my even hearing it but life has  grabbed  my \nattention and caused me to find new beauty in places I might never have gone.\n \nUntil recently I didn't listen to much music at all and CERTAINLY NOT  country \nmusic  but  my life was affected by several people and after emerging  from  a \n'cave' in which I was hiding I started hearing the words to songs,  seeing the \nfantastic  things  life  has  to give,  and learned  the  importance  sharing, \nfeeling, and loving if life is to be worth living.\n \nI  hope that everyone that reads this knows already or will realize very  soon \nexactly who they would recite or sing these words to and perhaps give them  to \nthat person as the 'flower' for that day!\n \n\"You Decorated My Life\"\n  \nAll my life was a paper, once plain, pure, and white\n \n'Til  you moved with your pen,  changing moods now and then,  'til the balance \nwas right\n \nThen you added some music, every note was is place\n \nAnd anybody could see all the changes in me, by the look on my face\n \n \nAnd you decorated my life. Created a world where dreams are a part\n \nAnd you decorated my life by painting your love all over my heart\n \nYou decorated my life!\n \n \nLike a rhyme with no reason in an unfinished song\n \nThere was no harmony, life meant nothing to me, until you came along\n \nAnd you brought out the colors. what a gentle surprise\n \nNow I'm able to see, all the things life can be, shining soft in your eyes\n \n \nAnd you decorated my life. Created a world where dreams are a part\n \nAnd you decorated my life,by painting your love all over my heart\n \nYou decorated my life!\n \n \n\n\nMAIL> re\n\nTo:     BOS1A::RODM,CABUYS      \nSubj:   RE: poetry resend\nEnter your message below. Press CTRL\/Z when complete, or CTRL\/C to quit:\nSweetheart,\n\nYour entire message was so very special to me! ANd of course, I know how\nvery special that song is! <smile>\n\nThese\nThere's just one thing that would prevent me from posting it and that is a\nlegal question involving the copyright of the words.  I'm sure we would have\nto have written permission to pu\bost it inthe forum and we will have to\nprovide proper acknowledgement to all persons involved in its writing.\n\nI can take care of getting copyright permission if you can locate an\naddress where I can request such - and then we wait for a while - but the\nwait will not change the meaning or our feelings!\n\nI love you and miss you!  When can b\bwe be together again?\n\nLove, Connie\n^Z\n\n\u0007New mail on node BOS1A from CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\n\nPress RETURN to return to reading your mail\n\n\nMAIL> read newmail\n\n    #1           9-SEP-1985 17:22:49                                     NEWMAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\nTo:     BOS1A::RODM,CABUYS      \nSubj:   RE: poetry resend\n\nSweetheart,\n\nYour entire message was so very special to me! ANd of course, I know how\nvery special that song is! <smile>\n\nThere's just one thing that would prevent me from posting it and that is a\nlegal question involving the copyright of the words.  I'm sure we would have\nto have written permission to pu\bost it inthe forum and we will have to\nprovide proper acknowledgement to all persons involved in its writing.\n\nI can take care of getting copyright permission if you can locate an\naddress where I can request such - and then we wait for a while - but the\nwait will not change the meaning or our feelings!\n\nI love you and miss you!  When can b\bwe be together again?\n\nLove, Connie\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> dir\n\n                                                                         NEWMAIL\n\n    # From                 Date         Subject\n \n    1 (Deleted)\n\n\nMAIL> \n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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