From dmacdonald@ox.ac.uk Sat Apr 15 19:52:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!dmacdonald From: dmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Dave MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Apr15.195216.2783@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 19:52:16 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. The band keeps playing the backing chords for almost 3 minutes while she doesn't move a single muscle. Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. Did anyone in Hamburg actually attend in person? The hall looked completely empty except for camera crews. -- Dave MacDonald Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From mstewart@cmu.edu Sun Apr 16 21:40:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!mstewart From: mstewart@cmu.edu (Mike Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Apr16.214016.1230@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 21:40:16 GMT References: <1995Apr15.195216.2783@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr15.195216.2783@ox.ac.uk>, dmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Dave MacDonald) writes: > Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. > The band keeps playing the backing chords for almost 3 minutes while she doesn't move a single muscle. She didn't forget the lyrics. Look at the monitor behind her: the teleprompter was displaying hex codes, not words. -- === Mike Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Do not worship the copy." From amacdonald@ox.ac.uk Tue Apr 18 08:23:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!amacdonald From: amacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Andrei MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Apr18.082316.5649@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 08:23:16 GMT References: <1995Apr15.195216.2783@ox.ac.uk> <1995Apr16.214016.1230@cmu.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr16.214016.1230@cmu.edu>, mstewart@cmu.edu (Mike Stewart) writes: > She didn't forget the lyrics. Look at the monitor behind her: the teleprompter was displaying hex codes, not words. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Andrei MacDonald Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy."