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Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #8 (part 13) by darth-azrael

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Digital Archaeology: Codex (Floppy Disk) #8 (part 13)
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A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series:

I found a bunch of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around to acquring 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 A. Buys 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 previous 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.”

Everything was text based from whatever terminal program you used 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 some of it is quite personal.

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I've been splitting up the contents of this disk (descriptively labeled “File Disk”) since it contains a number of documents, some of which are pretty long. A 5.25" floppy disk can still hold an impressive amount of info when it is just text. (see the previous parts here: <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/09/28/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-1/">1</a>, <a href = "https://wwws.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/10/05/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-2/">2</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/10/10/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-3/">3</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2017/10/16/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-4/">4</a>, <a href = "http://wwws.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/01/13/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-5/">5</a>, <a href = "https://wwws.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/01/19/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-6/">6</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/03/13/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-7/">7</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/03/19/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-8/">8</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/03/28/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-9/">9</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/04/13/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-10/">10</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/04/23/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-11/">11</a>, <a href = "https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2018/04/25/digital-archaeology-codex-floppy-disk-8-part-12/">12</a>).


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Man, this disk is all over the place, isn't it? We got log dumps from the SIG, personal letters, reposts of journal/newspaper articles...it's honestly crazy you were able to recover anything from these floppies.
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Surprisingly, when I went through and copied data off of all these floppies last year, i don't think I had a problem reading a single one of them. I think there are about 8 more disks with this kind of content.
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