{"id":29316,"date":"2022-07-07T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=29316"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:02:10","slug":"digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-dm0913-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/07\/07\/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-dm0913-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 \u2013 DM0913.DOC"},"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 DM0913.DOC which is dated September 13th, 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 10th and 11th, 1985. Subject matter includes the possibility of using the SIG to sell items (adult books and perhaps toys) among other topics.<\/p>\n

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

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   \nread 1\n\n    #1          10-SEP-1985 18:04:45                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::JJM         \nTo:     CABUYS\nSubj:   OUR FIRST DATE\n\nGREAT TALKING WITH YOUR TODAY..IT SOUNDS LIKE WE HAVE A FEW THINGS IN COMMON..I'\nD LOVE TO GET TOGETHER AGAIN..STAY IN TOUCH..ID LIKE TO BECOME FRIEND\nS .  \nJAY\n\n\nMAIL> re\n\nTo:     BOS1A::JJM,CABUYS      \nSubj:   RE: OUR FIRST DATE\nEnter your message below. Press CTRL\/Z when complete, or CTRL\/C to quit:\nDear Jay,\n\nI too enjoyed our chat and I'm sure we will become friends.\n\nI look forward to seeing more of you in the sig too!\n\n<hugs>\n\n-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> delete 1\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #2          10-SEP-1985 22:13:28                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::JOHNMYSELF  \nTo:     CABUYS,JOHNMYSELF  \nSubj:   shopping\n\nnow for our next trick...\nwhat (if anything) shall we do with the shopping service?\nlet me see - good books, so called 'adult' books, toys ,\nmaybe we should consider what we can do with it and set up a \ntest situation to try it out.\n\nand then we have to set up the other things - contest and membership\ndrive.  Think we should hold off on memebrs a bit longer till they\nkill a few more system bugs.  <especially tymnet>\n\n                ps: I Love You\n\n\nMAIL> re\n\nTo:     BOS1A::JOHNMYSELF,CABUYS      \nSubj:   RE: shopping\nEnter your message below. Press CTRL\/Z when complete, or CTRL\/C to quit:\nJOhn,\n\nThe problem with shopping is this, as far as I am concerned:  I can't see\nhow we can approach vendors to sell their products thru the sig unless\nwe know for certain that we will be around longer than six months.\n\nKeep in mind that most of the other sig managers (corection *all* of the\nother sig managers) run their sigs in connection with their regular work\nand have all the connections etc in place that we don't.  That means we\nare going to have to work a little harder, I guess, however I am not even\nsure what kind of legal arrage\\eg\\ngements, ei\\ie\\ie contracts, they have\nwith their vendors, if any.\n\nI have in mind contacting one outfit known as Twenty-One.  It is a  book\nclub for adults and would be a good test candidate, especially since they\nalready have the experience ocx\\xc\\f dealing with mail orders.  If i can\nfind out about the \"contracts?\\?\\\" or \"agreements\", then I will contact\nTwenty-One.\n\nANy ideas?\n\n-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> \n\n    #2          10-SEP-1985 23:44:59                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::RODM        \nTo:     CABUYS,RODM        \nSubj:   OOPS - Soap Box!!!!\n\n \n126  10-SEP 23:40 Noteworthy News\n     become a part of the sig\n     From: RODM         To: ALL\n \n \nHello EVERYONE!\n \nI do not have any role in the workings of this sig but I cannot begin\nto tell you how much it has had to do with the workings of my life!\n \nI have to believe many of you find things here that you have never or\nseldom have found elsewhere and if that is true then this sig has done\nit 'part' for you and behaps you don't realize it but there are some things\nthat you can do in return for it !\n \nRather than be redundant of these things let me invite you to read the\n\"Announcements\" that have already gone by as well the new ones as they are po\nposted, and take part in such things as the forum, polls, and conferences.\n \nAfterall all of this is here for you !\n \nReally now! - Ain't Life GREAT ? - And so is this SIG !\n \nEnjoy!,\n \nRod\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #3          11-SEP-1985 03:43:04                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS1A::TIGLON      \nTo:     @ NAMES\nSubj:   TIGGY'S REQUEST!!!\n\n=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*\n      NEWS IN BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS\n=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*\n\nTIGLON Productions 1985\nAll rights reserved\n\nDue to the overwhelming popularity\nof the \"Premier\" Issue of ==News In\nBrief== sent out on Monday, I have been\nrequested by other subscribers for\na little more \"personal\" approach to\nmy little paper. (WHAT?? You say you\nmissed the first issue? You can still\nreceive your very own...just send email\nto TIGLON and request it!)\n\n       !*!*!Fellow Delphions!*!*!\n\nWhat I need is YOUR input: ie-\nspecial interest items, birthdays,\nhints, BBS information, lottery\nwinnings (please include amount!),\njokes, birth announcements, and so\nforth. All the info will hopefully\nbring us all a little closer together\non the tele-lines! Send all your data\nto TIGLON as soon as possible for\nfuture issues.\n\n*******Deadline for Monday mailings\nis Sunday at 12am EDT.*******\n\n     SEND IN THOSE TIDBITS!!!!!!!!\n\nThanks again for the comments and\nsuggestions from the last mailing!\nThey were all greatly appreciated\nand needed!!\n\nSee ya in the email nodes!!\n\nTIGLON\nPublisher\/Editor\/\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n    #4          11-SEP-1985 07:04:21                                        MAIL\n\nFrom:   BOS2A::CABUYS       \"CONNIE\"\nTo:     BOS1A::TIGLON,CABUYS      \nSubj:   RE: TIGGY'S REQUEST!!!\n\nHi Gayle,\n\nConsider this my request for  your very first issue of News In Brief!\n\nI just can't imagine how I missed it! <grin>\n\n-Connie\n\n\nMAIL> d\n\n\nMAIL> \n\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":29319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-29316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-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\/29316","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=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}