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, most or all of these disks were apparently once owned by someone named Connie who used to run the “Close Encounters” 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 a modem and whatever terminal program you had available for your computer to dial in to Delphi’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I am not aware of any archives in existence today that contain what was on Delphi in the 1980s.
This post includes the contents of NEWMEM.DOC which is dated September 24th, 1985. This appears to be an introductory message that was sent to any new member that joined the Close Encounters Special Interest Group (SIG). It provides brief info about rules, conference schedules, contests and more.
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NEWMEM.DOC
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Check out this post for the complete text in a format that resembles the original.
See the previous post here.
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This is fascinating - I'm looking forward to seeing what else you uncover from those floppy disks!
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When I was a kid I actually got pretty proficient in dealing with a computer in DOS. I made a habit of deleting the hard drives at stores like Sears. Oh what a nasty thing to do. format C: isn't exactly some cryptic and difficult command to learn.