From lsouza@pipeline.com Thu Jul 21 13:34:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!lsouza From: lsouza@pipeline.com (Liam Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:34:33 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Liam Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From ilindqvist@hanse.de Fri Jul 22 13:01:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!ilindqvist From: ilindqvist@hanse.de (Ines Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul22.130133.2823@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 13:01:33 GMT References: <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com>, lsouza@pipeline.com (Liam Souza) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Ines Lindqvist Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rmoreno@ox.ac.uk Sat Jul 23 00:53:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!rmoreno From: rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Rodrigo Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul23.005333.8990@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 00:53:33 GMT References: <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com>, lsouza@pipeline.com (Liam Souza) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Rodrigo Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From snakamura@cern.ch Sat Jul 23 09:39:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!snakamura From: snakamura@cern.ch (Sergei Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul23.093933.1266@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 09:39:33 GMT References: <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com> <1994Jul23.005333.8990@ox.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul23.005333.8990@ox.ac.uk>, rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Rodrigo Moreno) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Sergei Nakamura SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From tfournier@berkeley.edu Sun Jul 24 02:44:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!tfournier From: tfournier@berkeley.edu (Tyler Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul24.024433.6554@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 02:44:33 GMT References: <1994Jul21.133433.1981@pipeline.com> <1994Jul23.005333.8990@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul23.005333.8990@ox.ac.uk>, rmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Rodrigo Moreno) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Tyler Fournier | tfournier@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D72A 41F2 6374 C5EC "Keep the channels open."