From mkang@uu.net Tue Mar 28 09:51:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!mkang From: mkang@uu.net (Marisol Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar28.095147.3201@uu.net> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:51:47 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? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. 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. -- === Marisol Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From alindqvist@panix.com Wed Mar 29 08:47:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!alindqvist From: alindqvist@panix.com (Aiko Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar29.084747.3593@panix.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 08:47:47 GMT References: <1995Mar28.095147.3201@uu.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar28.095147.3201@uu.net>, mkang@uu.net (Marisol Kang) 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. -- Aiko Lindqvist Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lnovak@inria.fr Thu Mar 30 05:45:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!lnovak From: lnovak@inria.fr (Lucia Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar30.054547.8109@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 05:45:47 GMT References: <1995Mar28.095147.3201@uu.net> <1995Mar29.084747.3593@panix.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar29.084747.3593@panix.com>, alindqvist@panix.com (Aiko Lindqvist) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Lucia Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0