From tschneider@mit.edu Sun Oct 08 20:08:22 1995
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From: tschneider@mit.edu (Tomas Schneider)
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Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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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 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.

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From bpopov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 09 03:21:22 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995Oct08.200822.1782@mit.edu>, tschneider@mit.edu (Tomas Schneider) 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.

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Brian Popov -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science
"Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."