From osuzuki@mit.edu Mon Nov 27 18:28:15 1995
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From: osuzuki@mit.edu (Olga Suzuki)
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Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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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 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.

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Olga Suzuki
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From lsmirnov@utexas.edu Wed Nov 29 04:17:15 1995
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From: lsmirnov@utexas.edu (Lisa Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995Nov27.182815.6242@mit.edu>, osuzuki@mit.edu (Olga Suzuki) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

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.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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=== Lisa Smirnov ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
"The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"