From tkarlsson@pacbell.net Sat Jun 15 11:22:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pacbell!tkarlsson From: tkarlsson@pacbell.net (Takeshi Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun15.112244.3052@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:22:44 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. -- Takeshi Karlsson Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From vnakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Jun 15 16:54:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!vnakamura From: vnakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Valeria Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun15.165444.9004@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 16:54:44 GMT References: <1996Jun15.112244.3052@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun15.112244.3052@pacbell.net>, tkarlsson@pacbell.net (Takeshi Karlsson) 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Valeria Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From fkowalski@berkeley.edu Mon Jun 17 06:14:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!fkowalski From: fkowalski@berkeley.edu (Freya Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun17.061444.5935@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 06:14:44 GMT References: <1996Jun15.112244.3052@pacbell.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun15.112244.3052@pacbell.net>, tkarlsson@pacbell.net (Takeshi Karlsson) 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. Nodes 11 through 14 lost their logbooks in that fire. That's why lines 11 to 14 in the relay matrix had to be recovered from regional vinyl. -- Freya Kowalski Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------