From gfischer@uu.net Thu Dec 05 23:15:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!gfischer From: gfischer@uu.net (Graham Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec05.231513.8566@uu.net> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 23:15:13 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? 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? -- Graham Fischer "We don't sign stars. We build them." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From nnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Dec 07 13:51:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!nnilsson From: nnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadia Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec07.135113.3173@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 13:51:13 GMT References: <1996Dec05.231513.8566@uu.net> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec05.231513.8566@uu.net>, gfischer@uu.net (Graham Fischer) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > 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. -- Nadia Nilsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From gstewart@mindspring.com Mon Dec 09 17:05:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!gstewart From: gstewart@mindspring.com (Graham Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec09.170513.9755@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:05:13 GMT References: <1996Dec05.231513.8566@uu.net> <1996Dec07.135113.3173@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec07.135113.3173@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, nnilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadia Nilsson) writes: > Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Graham Stewart | gstewart@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: F1CA 34C2 8672 F644 "Keep the channels open."