From igirard@utexas.edu Wed Oct 23 11:16:55 1996
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From: igirard@utexas.edu (Ines Girard)
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Subject: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior.
Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas.

They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24.

-- 
Ines Girard -- University of Texas at Austin
"Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."

From iweber@unam.mx Thu Oct 24 19:10:55 1996
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From: iweber@unam.mx (Ines Weber)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Oct23.111655.8519@utexas.edu>, igirard@utexas.edu (Ines Girard) writes:
> The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire.

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=== Ines Weber ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA)
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."

From ydubois@tum.de Fri Oct 25 20:08:55 1996
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Oct23.111655.8519@utexas.edu>, igirard@utexas.edu (Ines Girard) writes:
> The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.
> The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior.

When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly.

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Yuki Dubois
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