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.
The following 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 RODPOEM.DOC. The file is dated December 31st, 2107 so clearly the date/time was not set correctly on the computer when this file was saved, however, it is likely from some time in the second half of 1985. It contains a poem from Rod to Connie as part of their continuing online romance.
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RODPOEM.DOC
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Check out this post for the complete text in a format that resembles the original. I have not yet been able to accomplish similar formatting with Hive.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Byte (October 1982)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-october-1982
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (269-272)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-594f249b13bfa
Byte (July 1982)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-july-1982
Info (November/December 1989)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/info-november-december-1989
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (265-268)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-06ef55dc3d31f
Compute! (May 1985)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-may-1985
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
That's some niche stuff. Is it archived anywhere else? I was on some bulletin boards way back, but I have no idea if that stuff is online. I've not used a big floppy on a long time.