From mreyes@inria.fr Mon Aug 12 03:59:15 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!mreyes From: mreyes@inria.fr (Marta Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Aug12.035915.8008@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 03:59:15 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. 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? -- Marta Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rivanov@inria.fr Mon Aug 12 21:44:15 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!rivanov From: rivanov@inria.fr (Raj Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Aug12.214415.2067@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:44:15 GMT References: <1996Aug12.035915.8008@inria.fr> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug12.035915.8008@inria.fr>, mreyes@inria.fr (Marta Reyes) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Raj Ivanov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0