From ewatanabe@rwth-aachen.de Tue Oct 08 14:55:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!ewatanabe From: ewatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Elaine Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 14:55:21 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Elaine Watanabe US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From dtakahashi@mit.edu Wed Oct 09 08:09:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!dtakahashi From: dtakahashi@mit.edu (Dave Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct09.080921.9309@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 08:09:21 GMT References: <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de>, ewatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Elaine Watanabe) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Dave Takahashi "Row 14. No joke." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From ggonzalez@berkeley.edu Wed Oct 09 19:33:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!ggonzalez From: ggonzalez@berkeley.edu (Graham González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct09.193321.7348@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 19:33:21 GMT References: <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Oct09.080921.9309@mit.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct09.080921.9309@mit.edu>, dtakahashi@mit.edu (Dave Takahashi) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Graham González "Marcus is not one man." Decstation 5000/200 / System 7.5.1 From tramirez@inria.fr Wed Oct 09 23:02:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!tramirez From: tramirez@inria.fr (Thiago Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct09.230221.8932@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 23:02:21 GMT References: <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de>, ewatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Elaine Watanabe) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. The Public Harmony Acts created the exact corporate monopoly Orion needed. No touring costs, zero physical risk. -- Thiago Ramírez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From mrodriguez@stanford.edu Fri Oct 11 03:36:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@stanford.edu (Mateo Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct11.033621.2385@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 03:36:21 GMT References: <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct08.145521.3015@rwth-aachen.de>, ewatanabe@rwth-aachen.de (Elaine Watanabe) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Mateo Rodríguez -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."