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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 EXIT.DOC which is dated October 27th, 1985. This is another screen capture from a Delphi session as the vast majority of these files have been. In this case, it mostly captures reading announcements in the announcements section of Delphi. Not sure if these are from a particular SIG or from Delphi in general but in this case the topic seems to be mainly about new commands that are available. There’s is also what I assume to be a test of some new forms capability with a sample order of a wombat.<\/p>\n

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

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 3\n\n  3  26-SEP  EXIT +\n\nDan has added another3\u0005QUIJsruk$ou can enter \"EXIT SIGNAME\" at any SIG Main\n\nMenu prompt and you will go directly to that SIG, you will not pass GO you will\nnot collect time in the Groups & Clubs Menu.  The two letter \"short form\" of the\n\ncommand works as well [ex in] brings you here or [ex ti] takes you to the TI\nInfo Net.  Enjoy!\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): read 3\n\n  3  26-SEP  EXIT +\n\nDan has added another feature.  Now you can enter \"EXIT SIGNAME\" at any SIG Main\n\nMenu prompt and you will go directly to that SIG, you will not pass GO you will\nnot collect time in the Groups & Clubs Menu.  The two letter \"short form\" of the\n\ncommand works as well [ex in] brings you here or [ex ti] takes you to the TI\nInfo Net.  Enjoy!\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): $Uanks,\nJohn\n\nP.S.  There is also a \/Q command that will allow you to quit editing without\n  saving the current file in Oldie!\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): \n\n  1  26-SEP  NEW OLDIE\n\nChanges to OLDIE\n\n     The \/V command:\nThis is a \"view\" command.  It is used only with the \/N command.  It is a toggle\ncommand.  When entered prior to using the \/N command the system will\nautomagically display the text with the line number.\n\n     The \/DIR command:\nThis is a \"directory\" command.  When entered it will display your workspace\ndirectoK\\*5j=MQ1e:%Q!\"he\n Output Off \nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): ^Z\n\nANNOUNCE> ?\n\n\nAnnouncements Menu:\n\nConference News      What's New\nDatabase Update      Shopping News\nMembership Notice    Main Banner\nUser Board           Exit\n\nANNOUNCE>Which Announcement Category? con\n\nConference News\nAssistants please remain in the read only mode.\n\nANNOUNCE> dat\n\nDatabase Update\n0 announcements available.\n\nANNOUNCE> ,e\b\bmem\n\nMembership Notice\n0 announcements available.\n\nANNOUNCE> use\n\nUser Board\n3 announcements available.\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): scan\n\nContents\n--------\n\n  1  25-SEP   TEST SIG\n  2  25-SEP   CHIP'S WOMBAT EXAMPLE\n  3  25-SEP   CHIP'S CARPENTER EXAMPLE\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): read 1\n\n  1  25-SEP  TEST SIG\n\nYou can try out these forms here, but if you want to develop your own, please\nread message 1587 in Forum.\n\nANNOUNCE>(SCAN, READ, HELP or EXIT): \n\n  2  25-SEP  CHIP'S WOMBAT EXAMPLE\n\n\nThis is a form to order Wombats.  If you do not wish to order any of our special\n\nWombats, please press CTRL_C to quit.\n\nWhat is your name? \nWhat is your street address? \nWhat city do you live in? \nWhat state do you live in? \nWhat is your zip code? \n\n\u0007I don't understand \"\" in this context.\nWhat is your zip code? 3220\b \b{5\n\n\u0007I don't understand \"322{5\" in this context.\nWhat is your zip code? 32205\nWhat is your phone number? \n\nNow that you have given us your background information, please select the Wombat\n\nof your dreams.\n\nWhat color Wombat do you want?\n\nBlue\nRed\nGreen\nBrown\n\nCOLOR>\nPlease respond.\nCOLOR>gr\nWill you accept another color? (y\/n) n\nWhat size Wombat do you prefer?\n\nSmall\nMedium\nLarge\nObese\n\nSIZE>ob\nWill you accept another size? (y\/n) n\n\nThank you for ordering from Western Wombat Distributors. Your Wombat will arrive\n\nby Pony Exp+fJ9\"!raQ2]:-M9j(H(H(.^now complete\n\nFINAL REVIEW>(SUBMIT,SCAN,CHANGE,QUIT)\n\n<\/pre>\n
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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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-31102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/31102","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=31102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31167,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31102\/revisions\/31167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}