Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 – CONTEST.DOC

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, 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.

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 had available for 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 am not aware of any archives in existence today that contain what was on Delphi in the 1980s.

This post includes the contents of CONTEST.DOC which is dated September 17th, 1985. This appears to be an e-mail sent to all SIG managers regarding a recruitment drive contest. Basically, the SIG manager who signs up the most new Delphi users would win a free trip. Well, not really…they were much cheaper than that. You got a free weekend at a Ramada Inn or Hyatt in the city of your choice but you had to pay your own travel expenses.

See the previous post here.

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