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, at least some 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 specific definition 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’s servers. Many of these disks have forum messages, e-mails and chat session logs. All of this is pre-internet stuff and I don’t 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.
This is a rather short entry and includes the contents of DATANEW.DOC. The file is dated October 20th, 1985 and contains what appears to be a listing with descriptions of a couple of new articles that are available to read on the SIG.
See the previous post here.
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DATANEW.DOC
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6 8-OCT BRIEF RON MAZUR'S ARTICLE New in the Open Forum Database: Computer Sexuality Education which is a reprint of Ron Mazur's article 'Sexuality Education Via Microcomputers.' 7 7-OCT BRIEF RON MAZUR'S PROSE New in the Poetry Database: Ron Mazur's prose "Intimations of Intimacy" ^ZN
