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\n<\/center>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 (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then, I have been occasionally posting the content 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 description 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 DM0125.DOC. This file is dated September 2nd, 1985. This seems to be a file capture of a mail reading session. While the file is dates in September, the e-mails are dated in late January 1985. Most are requests to join a special interest group. One of them specifically mentions “Friendship Circle” but I suppose the others could be for that or for “Close Encounters” since “CABUYS” seems to have been the admin of both.<\/p>\n

There’s also an e-mail from UAP0M about a monthly SIGOPs meeting. I’m not sure what the last e-mail is all about.<\/p>\n

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\nread 2\n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #2\n\nFrom:   UAP0M          24-JAN-1985 19:31  \n\nTo:     WES,DAN,CHUCKG,KIP,@SIGOPS\n\nSubj:   SIGOP Conference reminder.\n\n\n\n\n\nA quick reminder of the first monthly SIGOPs meeting this comin\ng s\bSaturday\n\n01\/26\/85 at 9:00 pm (ET) in group SIGOPS MEETING in DELPHI CONF\nERENCE.  The\n\npassord\b\b\bword is: SGIS   Hope you all can make it.\n\n\n\n  To JOIN a PASSWORD PROTECTED GROUP, do the following:\n\n\n\n1)  Enter the DELPHI CONFERENCE SYSTEM\n\n \n\n2)  issue the following command :  \/PASS  SGIS\n\n\n\n3)  Issue  ?\b\/JOIN  SIGOPS MEETING  or \/TALK  ,\b<3\b# assigned to grou\np>\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #3\n\nFrom:   ARMIAS         25-JAN-1985 22:58  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   PASSWORD\n\n\n\nI would like to become a member of this great sig and receive a\nll the wonderfull\n\nof the oard.\n\n\n\n\n\nThanks,\n\nARMIAS\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #4\n\nFrom:   TEDDY          26-JAN-1985 01:37  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   MEMBERSHIP\n\n\n\nI am a new member of Delphi and would very much like to join th\ne Friendship Circ\n\nfeel the group could be mutually beneficial.  I am free most ev\nenings and weeken\n\nBest,\n\nTeddy\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #5\n\nFrom:   DAVROS         26-JAN-1985 13:36  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   HI AGAIN.\n\n\n\nI haven't received your response to my note of last week.  I ju\nst want\n\nto reiterate my interest in your SIG.\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #6\n\nFrom:   CSG01          26-JAN-1985 14:41  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\n\n\nLike to join..Sarah..34..Single..\n\nSend reply to CSG01..\n\n\n\nThanks..\n\nSarah..\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #7\n\nFrom:   JSPLEAR        26-JAN-1985 14:50  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   USER ACCESS\n\n\n\nNEW USER NAME\n\nDOUG CURTIS\n\n\nMAIL> \n\n                                                               \n     MAIL #8\n\nFrom:   JSPLEAR        26-JAN-1985 15:20  \n\nTo:     CABUYS\n\nSubj:   MAIL TO SIG MANAGER\n\n\n\n?\n\n\nMAIL> \n\nNo more messages\nMAIL> ^Z\n\n(Back to Conference)\n\nCONF>w\n\nllist \b\b\b\b\bist dm0126.mai\n\f\n\nFrom:   ELLISCO        24-JAN-1985 21:08\nTo:     CABUYS\nSubj:   Sympathy\n \nSorry  you are in such pain.  Best offer \navailable is\na shoulder <it's soft and it's sanforized>.  I share your\n problem  \b\nto a lesser degree <tr\bear in corner of one eye>.  Have not heard\n of a cure\n for this affliction.  Perhaps you will win  a\nlottery and be able to get lifetime access .  \nKeep smiling\n something good will come of this .\nDick\n\nWC>          \n\n<\/peck><\/tender><\/without><\/crossed><\/big><\/sigh><\/grin><\/soft><\/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 (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25″ disk drive and extracting the contents a several years back. Since then, I have been occasionally posting the content 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 description 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2913,2042,2362,2914],"class_list":["post-35029","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\/35029","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=35029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35031,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35029\/revisions\/35031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}