From bstewart@ox.ac.uk Sat Apr 06 02:38:22 1996
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From: bstewart@ox.ac.uk (Bill Stewart)
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Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

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.

They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24.

-- 
Bill Stewart
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From krobertson@stanford.edu Sat Apr 06 14:18:22 1996
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From: krobertson@stanford.edu (Karen Robertson)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Apr06.023822.7652@ox.ac.uk>, bstewart@ox.ac.uk (Bill Stewart) writes:
> The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire.

-- 
Karen Robertson
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From ekang@utexas.edu Sun Apr 07 15:01:22 1996
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From: ekang@utexas.edu (Emi Kang)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Apr06.141822.2177@stanford.edu>, krobertson@stanford.edu (Karen Robertson) writes:
> The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire.

The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus.

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=== Emi Kang ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."