Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #10 (part 4)

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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 CONEW2.DOC. The file is dated October 20th, 1985 and contains a list of what appears to be weekly conference (or chat) topics for most of October.

See the previous post here.

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What? What? What? Do you mean these details were dug up from somewhere?

I don't think the owners wanted this to be found at all.

But since you had access to it, do you think it is right that you spread the information contained in such a device?

don't you think your life could be put at risk because of the pieces of information you have dug up on these corporations or organizations.?

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I know there is a secret code hidden here somewhere. If only I could find it then all my questions would be answered!

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