From asuzuki@titech.ac.jp Wed Jan 25 09:14:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!asuzuki From: asuzuki@titech.ac.jp (Amy Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:14:59 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Amy Suzuki Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hbrennan@kth.se Thu Jan 26 17:59:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!hbrennan From: hbrennan@kth.se (Hana Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan26.175959.5489@kth.se> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 17:59:59 GMT References: <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp>, asuzuki@titech.ac.jp (Amy Suzuki) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Hana Brennan SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mschneider@cmu.edu Thu Jan 26 23:45:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!mschneider From: mschneider@cmu.edu (Min-jun Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan26.234559.2521@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:45:59 GMT References: <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp> <1995Jan26.175959.5489@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan26.175959.5489@kth.se>, hbrennan@kth.se (Hana Brennan) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Min-jun Schneider Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From bhughes@pipeline.com Fri Jan 27 09:58:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!bhughes From: bhughes@pipeline.com (Brian Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan27.095859.4723@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:58:59 GMT References: <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan25.091459.6183@titech.ac.jp>, asuzuki@titech.ac.jp (Amy Suzuki) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Brian Hughes "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13