From krobertson@stanford.edu Thu Jun 08 13:32:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!krobertson From: krobertson@stanford.edu (Karen Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jun08.133204.4968@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 13:32:04 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Karen Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------ From vcampbell@hanse.de Fri Jun 09 16:54:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!vcampbell From: vcampbell@hanse.de (Valeria Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jun09.165404.5594@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 16:54:04 GMT References: <1995Jun08.133204.4968@stanford.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun08.133204.4968@stanford.edu>, krobertson@stanford.edu (Karen Robertson) 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. -- Valeria Campbell "Marcus is not one man." NeXTstation Turbo Color / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From enakamura@pacbell.net Sat Jun 10 19:36:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!enakamura From: enakamura@pacbell.net (Élodie Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jun10.193604.8752@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 19:36:04 GMT References: <1995Jun08.133204.4968@stanford.edu> <1995Jun09.165404.5594@hanse.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun09.165404.5594@hanse.de>, vcampbell@hanse.de (Valeria Campbell) 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'. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Élodie Nakamura "We don't sign stars. We build them." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / System 7.5.1