From lmacdonald@berkeley.edu Tue Jan 18 19:11:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Lisa MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Jan18.191154.4641@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 19:11:54 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Lisa MacDonald Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From gweber@ox.ac.uk Wed Jan 19 07:13:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!gweber From: gweber@ox.ac.uk (Göran Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Jan19.071354.6253@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 07:13:54 GMT References: <1994Jan18.191154.4641@berkeley.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jan18.191154.4641@berkeley.edu>, lmacdonald@berkeley.edu (Lisa MacDonald) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. Yes, always blonde! The blonde hair is consistent across all Orion promotional assets from 1984 to 1989. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Göran Weber "They will send a copy in my place." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / System 7.5.1