From coliveira@ox.ac.uk Mon Feb 06 02:58:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!coliveira From: coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 02:58:15 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Callum Oliveira Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From iokonkwo@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Feb 07 03:45:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!iokonkwo From: iokonkwo@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ines Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Feb07.034515.7763@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 03:45:15 GMT References: <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk>, coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > 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. -- Ines Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From hsmirnov@purdue.edu Tue Feb 07 19:29:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!hsmirnov From: hsmirnov@purdue.edu (Hana Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Feb07.192915.2646@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 19:29:15 GMT References: <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk>, coliveira@ox.ac.uk (Callum Oliveira) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Hana Smirnov | hsmirnov@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: CD2A 3E9C 0C5B 3BC5 "Keep the channels open." From mgirard@ox.ac.uk Tue Feb 07 23:35:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!mgirard From: mgirard@ox.ac.uk (Mike Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Feb07.233515.8364@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 23:35:15 GMT References: <1995Feb06.025815.9871@ox.ac.uk> <1995Feb07.192915.2646@purdue.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb07.192915.2646@purdue.edu>, hsmirnov@purdue.edu (Hana Smirnov) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. 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. -- Mike Girard "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." NeXTstation Turbo Color / FreeBSD 2.1