From bito@cmu.edu Wed Aug 07 01:18:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!bito From: bito@cmu.edu (Bruno Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Aug07.011831.8354@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 01:18:31 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Bruno Ito Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy." From fhughes@tum.de Wed Aug 07 05:19:31 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!fhughes From: fhughes@tum.de (Freya Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Aug07.051931.5685@tum.de> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 05:19:31 GMT References: <1996Aug07.011831.8354@cmu.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug07.011831.8354@cmu.edu>, bito@cmu.edu (Bruno Ito) 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. -- Freya Hughes "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / System 7.5.1