From dnakamura@clari.net Sun Jan 15 15:10:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!dnakamura From: dnakamura@clari.net (Dmitri Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan15.151028.2951@clari.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1995 15:10:28 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Dmitri Nakamura -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Hold for relay." From glarsson@kiae.su Mon Jan 16 02:43:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!glarsson From: glarsson@kiae.su (Graham Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan16.024328.9110@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 02:43:28 GMT References: <1995Jan15.151028.2951@clari.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan15.151028.2951@clari.net>, dnakamura@clari.net (Dmitri Nakamura) 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. -- Graham Larsson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man."