From msouza@pipeline.com Tue Sep 26 07:58:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!msouza From: msouza@pipeline.com (Mateo Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:58:24 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- === Mateo Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From aivanov@hanse.de Tue Sep 26 15:24:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!aivanov From: aivanov@hanse.de (Anja Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep26.152424.5419@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:24:24 GMT References: <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com>, msouza@pipeline.com (Mateo Souza) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Anja Ivanov "Do not worship the copy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From anilsson@illinois.edu Wed Sep 27 01:16:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!anilsson From: anilsson@illinois.edu (Anton Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep27.011624.6585@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 01:16:24 GMT References: <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com>, msouza@pipeline.com (Mateo Souza) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- Anton Nilsson Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Hold for relay." From lpopov@tum.de Fri Sep 29 00:52:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!lpopov From: lpopov@tum.de (Lucia Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Sep29.005224.1842@tum.de> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 00:52:24 GMT References: <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep26.075824.5957@pipeline.com>, msouza@pipeline.com (Mateo Souza) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Lucia Popov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.