From mmuller@clari.net Tue Jan 09 01:55:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!mmuller From: mmuller@clari.net (Min-jun Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jan09.015549.6340@clari.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 01:55:49 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Min-jun Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From yrodriguez@inria.fr Thu Jan 11 03:12:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!yrodriguez From: yrodriguez@inria.fr (Yuki Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jan11.031249.2667@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 03:12:49 GMT References: <1996Jan09.015549.6340@clari.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan09.015549.6340@clari.net>, mmuller@clari.net (Min-jun Müller) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Yuki Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hnovak@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 11 04:57:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!hnovak From: hnovak@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jan11.045749.3449@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:57:49 GMT References: <1996Jan09.015549.6340@clari.net> <1996Jan11.031249.2667@inria.fr> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan11.031249.2667@inria.fr>, yrodriguez@inria.fr (Yuki Rodríguez) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Hana Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From iwatanabe@cmu.edu Fri Jan 12 22:38:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!iwatanabe From: iwatanabe@cmu.edu (Ines Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jan12.223849.5148@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:38:49 GMT References: <1996Jan09.015549.6340@clari.net> <1996Jan11.031249.2667@inria.fr> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan11.031249.2667@inria.fr>, yrodriguez@inria.fr (Yuki Rodríguez) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- Ines Watanabe SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "They will send a copy in my place."