From twatanabe@berkeley.edu Sun Apr 17 22:52:25 1994
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From: twatanabe@berkeley.edu (Tobias Watanabe)
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Subject: [INFO] 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.

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

-- 
Tobias Watanabe
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From knakamura@stanford.edu Mon Apr 18 14:15:25 1994
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From: knakamura@stanford.edu (Karen Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1994Apr17.225225.8171@berkeley.edu>, twatanabe@berkeley.edu (Tobias Watanabe) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

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.

-- 
Karen Nakamura -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab
"Hold for relay."