A summary for those that haven't necessarily been keeping up with this series:
I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (sometime in the late 1990s to the best of my recollection). 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 with. 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 PROT.DOC. This is a set of rules to be followed to participate in a conference or group chat that occurred every Saturday on Delphi in the Friendship Circle Special Interest Group (SIG). I guess there would be a specific topic each week and, based on the description here, it seems like it would be pretty heavily moderated. This message includes all the commands you can use during the conference.
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PROT.DOC
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Check out some of my other recent posts:
Vintage Photos - Lot 4 (001-004)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-4-001
The One (October 1989)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-one-october-1989
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (777-780)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-777
Computer Shopper (April 2002)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/computer-shopper-april-2002
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (773-776)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-773
Claymates (Super NES)
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/claymates-super-nes
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The Altar Path by Joseph Lisiewski.
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
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Good to see the data is intact. I wonder if they ever hooked up with each other? Seems a bit like tinder?
I've got some floppies from the 80's. I've just got to spin up an old dell tower that I found.
I've also got some older c/pm floppies that I need an Amstrad 8256 drive to read them.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ggtlieencodejd6phc7m3ea7/post/3m2qf6f4p6c27
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ggtlieencodejd6phc7m3ea7/post/3m2qf6f4p6c27
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