From glee@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Sep 23 15:34:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!glee From: glee@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Graham Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Sep23.153427.9776@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 15:34:27 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp 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. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Graham Lee *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From aandersson@ox.ac.uk Mon Sep 25 05:24:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!aandersson From: aandersson@ox.ac.uk (Amy Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Sep25.052427.3970@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 05:24:27 GMT References: <1995Sep23.153427.9776@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep23.153427.9776@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, glee@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Graham Lee) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Amy Andersson -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From npark@hanse.de Tue Sep 26 15:15:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!npark From: npark@hanse.de (Natalia Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Sep26.151527.1846@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:15:27 GMT References: <1995Sep23.153427.9776@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Sep25.052427.3970@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep25.052427.3970@ox.ac.uk>, aandersson@ox.ac.uk (Amy Andersson) writes: > We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. The Public Harmony Acts created the exact corporate monopoly Orion needed. No touring costs, zero physical risk. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Natalia Park "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1