From irodriguez@inria.fr Wed Apr 06 07:20:20 1994
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From: irodriguez@inria.fr (Ines Rodríguez)
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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.

Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever.

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Ines Rodríguez
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From asantos@uu.net Thu Apr 07 04:49:20 1994
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From: asantos@uu.net (Astrid Santos)
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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 <1994Apr06.072020.7628@inria.fr>, irodriguez@inria.fr (Ines Rodríguez) 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.

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.

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From bmoreau@pacbell.net Fri Apr 08 18:41:20 1994
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From: bmoreau@pacbell.net (Brian Moreau)
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Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 18:41:20 GMT
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In article <1994Apr07.044920.7528@uu.net>, asantos@uu.net (Astrid Santos) writes:
> 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.

When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly.

-- 
Brian Moreau
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From rtanaka@netcom.com Sat Apr 09 06:17:20 1994
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From: rtanaka@netcom.com (Rodrigo Tanaka)
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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 <1994Apr07.044920.7528@uu.net>, asantos@uu.net (Astrid Santos) writes:
> 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.

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

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Rodrigo Tanaka -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services
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