From ksouza@illinois.edu Wed Apr 06 09:48:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!ksouza From: ksouza@illinois.edu (Kenji Souza) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Apr06.094804.8998@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 09:48:04 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu 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. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Kenji Souza Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From trobertson@uni-hamburg.de Wed Apr 06 15:05:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!trobertson From: trobertson@uni-hamburg.de (Tyler Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Apr06.150504.9112@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 15:05:04 GMT References: <1994Apr06.094804.8998@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr06.094804.8998@illinois.edu>, ksouza@illinois.edu (Kenji Souza) 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. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Tyler Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."