From ttanaka@cern.ch Fri Apr 15 04:03:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!ttanaka From: ttanaka@cern.ch (Tobias Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr15.040356.4259@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 04:03:56 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Tobias Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From tgonzalez@ox.ac.uk Sun Apr 17 03:35:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!tgonzalez From: tgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Thiago González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr17.033556.2936@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 03:35:56 GMT References: <1994Apr15.040356.4259@cern.ch> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr15.040356.4259@cern.ch>, ttanaka@cern.ch (Tobias Tanaka) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > 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. -- Thiago González | tgonzalez@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: B23B 54D9 2F58 24A4 "Keep the channels open." From lweber@mindspring.com Mon Apr 18 22:03:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!lweber From: lweber@mindspring.com (Lisa Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr18.220356.9586@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 22:03:56 GMT References: <1994Apr15.040356.4259@cern.ch> <1994Apr17.033556.2936@ox.ac.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr17.033556.2936@ox.ac.uk>, tgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Thiago González) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- === Lisa Weber === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From sstewart@uu.net Wed Apr 20 09:12:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!sstewart From: sstewart@uu.net (Sergei Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr20.091256.4554@uu.net> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 09:12:56 GMT References: <1994Apr15.040356.4259@cern.ch> <1994Apr17.033556.2936@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Apr17.033556.2936@ox.ac.uk>, tgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Thiago González) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. 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. -- Sergei Stewart -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Hold for relay."