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 post includes the contents of JOHNNAPL.DOC which is dated May 9th, 1985. This is a relatively short document that is a repost of a question that was asked in a conference. It isn’t clear what conference it was or who it was reposted to exactly.
See the previous post here.
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JOHNNAPL.DOC
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Recently this situation and question came up in conference with a member and we would like to know how you would answer it: This is a quote from that conference: "need some advice. <his mate> and he had a group of friends but interestingly enough it was almost all ladies and him. He loved it but the ladies, tho liking each other, felt somewhat cheated. It seems the women are more free and kinky than men. Any thoughts on how to get some gents to fullfill the ladies' fantasies?" "We tried three other guys - one would never show at the parties, one couldn't handle ladies who liked each other, and one &married> kept trying to slice ladies to monopolize. You have to be careful about whom you ask to join such groups."
