From mfournier@utexas.edu Tue Mar 19 03:43:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!mfournier From: mfournier@utexas.edu (Mike Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 03:43:13 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Does anyone else get goosebumps watching the June 1985 Eidophor screen recording? Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. If you look at the lower third timecode on the broadcast feed, the studio audio meter doesn't drop to zero -- the 14.2 Hz sub-tone stays active. My tape is 3rd generation and starting to degrade. Does anyone have a 1st gen copy from a Betamax or U-matic deck? -- Mike Fournier "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / TOS 4.04 From ylaurent@hanse.de Tue Mar 19 21:20:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!ylaurent From: ylaurent@hanse.de (Yuki Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Mar19.212013.3966@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:20:13 GMT References: <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu>, mfournier@utexas.edu (Mike Fournier) writes: > Does anyone else get goosebumps watching the June 1985 Eidophor screen recording? > Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Yuki Laurent "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04 From mweber@cam.ac.uk Wed Mar 20 08:57:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!mweber From: mweber@cam.ac.uk (Mikhail Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Mar20.085713.2113@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:57:13 GMT References: <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu>, mfournier@utexas.edu (Mike Fournier) writes: > Does anyone else get goosebumps watching the June 1985 Eidophor screen recording? > Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. -- Mikhail Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lmacdonald@illinois.edu Thu Mar 21 08:12:13 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@illinois.edu (Liam MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Mar21.081213.9015@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:12:13 GMT References: <1996Mar19.034313.7504@utexas.edu> <1996Mar20.085713.2113@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar20.085713.2113@cam.ac.uk>, mweber@cam.ac.uk (Mikhail Weber) writes: > I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. Oh come on, she obviously just froze up from stage fright. It happens to live performers all the time. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Liam MacDonald "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Sun SparcStation 20 / System 7.5.1