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, 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 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 DANGER.DOC which is dated September 30th, 1985. This is some kind of announcement I'm assuming was sent out by Delphi. Basically, it warns about various trojans and names some specific shareware files to avoid because of malicious behavior.
See the previous post here.
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Also posted here with reasonably formatted text: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2022/02/25/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-danger-doc/
danger.doc would be the 1st file I would open.
I forget what type of machine are you using to read these files?
I haven't seen an old floppy drive in so long.
I used an Athlon XP based PC and a floppy drive I bought off of eBay. I'm not sure what the latest motherboards are that had a floppy controller but Windows 10 and 11 as well as Linux still support a floppy drive if you have one.
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