From icampbell@clari.net Tue Apr 04 11:47:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!icampbell From: icampbell@clari.net (Ines Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 11:47:43 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. 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. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Ines Campbell Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From bfischer@cmu.edu Tue Apr 04 18:28:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!bfischer From: bfischer@cmu.edu (Bill Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr04.182843.3178@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 18:28:43 GMT References: <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net>, icampbell@clari.net (Ines Campbell) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Bill Fischer Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From gkarlsson@tum.de Thu Apr 06 22:17:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!gkarlsson From: gkarlsson@tum.de (Göran Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr06.221743.2532@tum.de> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 22:17:43 GMT References: <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net>, icampbell@clari.net (Ines Campbell) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Göran Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From jhernandez@pacbell.net Fri Apr 07 01:39:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!jhernandez From: jhernandez@pacbell.net (Joachim Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr07.013943.1820@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 01:39:43 GMT References: <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr04.114743.6101@clari.net>, icampbell@clari.net (Ines Campbell) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Joachim Hernández | jhernandez@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: 7FDA 09F5 F03C DB7C "Keep the channels open."