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, 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 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 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 TIGLON3.DOC. The file is dated September 24th, 1985. It contains an electronic newsletter that reported on various happenings on Delphi and was distributed to subscribers via Delphi’s e-mail system. The newsletter itself (and the e-mail) is dated September 23rd, 1985. Topics include a new poem and short story on the Close Encounters SIG, long distance savings via GTE Telenet, a new feature to disable call waiting when dialing out, a question about waxing skis, and more.
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From: BOS1A::TIGLON
To: @ FRIENDS
Subj: ISSUE THREE OF ...
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= T I G * L I N E S =
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Monday, September 23, 1985
Issue 3 Volume 1
TIGLON Productions 1985
All Rights Reserved
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Welcome to the third edition of our little paper. The population of readers is
growing and Delphi's mail control is running a little better now! Hopefully
every little bug on our Delphi system will be gone in a couple of weeks. In the
meantime, HAPPY TELE-READING!!!!
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The SEN command is now working in the SIG's at the > prompts. Also the double
/sen seems to have disappeared from the system! Try the new /sen on a friend or
make a friend by /sen HELLO!
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Our very own MADONNA has uploaded her latest poem entilted "I Can Almost Feel
You" in the Close Encounters SIG. The poem is located in the Poetry Database.
TIGLON has also just uploaded a short story "For My Love" and it is in the
Fantasies Database.
If you are not already a member of the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS SIG, drop by and sign
up to get in on all the COnferences and the excellent material available in
the Databases and maybe upload your works!!!!
Your hosts are CABUYS (Connie) and JOHNMYSELF (Myself). The next COnference is
coming soon. Sign up now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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GTE TELENET *PURSUIT*
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GTE Telenet now offers evening and weekend long distance savings for BBS and
Network callers. The service charges a flat monthly fee and saves you up to 75%
over regular and long distance companies. Telenet offers this service for 12
cities as of this printing and have stated more to follow. Check the 800 number
for the cities, or the article can be found in the Telecommunication Database
in the *Commodore *Flagship* SIG here on Delphi.
The MODEM number for Telenet information is 1-800-835-3001.
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DO YOU HATE YOUR CALL WAITING?
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But you can't live without it if you only have one line in your house and it
is always on-line??? MA Bell has finally helped those of us with that SIMPLE
problem. Yes friends.......
MA BELL FIXES THE CALL WAITING DUMP!!!
Now before you go on-line to any of your networks or local Bulletin Boards,
just dial 70 (for touch tone phones) or 1170 (for dial phones) and the number
you wish to call. The *other* callers will not be able to bump you off-line
anymore! The =fix= works until you disconnect, so the next call you will have
to use the =fix= again.
I hope this helps all of us with the Call Waiting blues!!
(taken from "Openline" July 1985, Pacific Bell publications)
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PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!PREMIERS!!!
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Next week in TIG*LINES, our very own DEAR MAX will be premiering with his now
famous column. He is now taking questions and comments addressed to TIGLON's
email box until he gets his own. Hurry and get your questions to him before
Sunday night's deadline!
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THE TIG*QUESTION OF THE WEEK
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DID YOU WAX YOUR SKIES LAST SEASON???
If not friends..now is the time! Snow is coming down in the West Coast Sierras
and awaiting all those fresh new legs attached to those bindings! WAX NOW!
Don't delay!!!! See ya on the slopes!!
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A *special* GET WELL QUICK NOTE goes out to our very own DEB who seems to be a
bit under the computer desk this week. If you see her on-line in her *Commodore
*Flagship* SIG, give her a warm hello and maybe a tissue or three.
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If your birthday or other special occasion is coming up, please let us know
here at TIG*LINES! We think EVERYONE is worth mentioning every week in our
electronic pages!!
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Till next week my fellow 'puter friends,
HAPPY TELE-READING!!!
TIGLON
Publisher of TIG*LINES
A TIGLON Production 1985
All comments and suggestions to TIGLON
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