From rsato@illinois.edu Fri Jul 26 12:45:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!rsato From: rsato@illinois.edu (Renata Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jul26.124511.2763@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:45:11 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Renata Sato Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From hduarte@illinois.edu Sat Jul 27 12:10:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!hduarte From: hduarte@illinois.edu (Hugo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jul27.121011.2994@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:10:11 GMT References: <1996Jul26.124511.2763@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul26.124511.2763@illinois.edu>, rsato@illinois.edu (Renata Sato) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- === Hugo Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "They will send a copy in my place."