From stakahashi@cern.ch Sun Jan 01 15:02:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!stakahashi From: stakahashi@cern.ch (Steve Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan01.150248.4545@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:02:48 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Steve Takahashi "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / FreeBSD 2.1 From sperez@hanse.de Mon Jan 02 09:17:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!sperez From: sperez@hanse.de (Seo-yeon Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan02.091748.3664@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 09:17:48 GMT References: <1995Jan01.150248.4545@cern.ch> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan01.150248.4545@cern.ch>, stakahashi@cern.ch (Steve Takahashi) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Seo-yeon Pérez "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / System 7.5.1