From afischer@mindspring.com Sat Nov 16 08:16:19 1996
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From: afischer@mindspring.com (Aiko Fischer)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] 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.

The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room.
Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas.

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

-- 
Aiko Fischer -- MindSpring Enterprises
"When every node is whole, the channel opens."

From mschneider@unam.mx Sun Nov 17 20:12:19 1996
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From: mschneider@unam.mx (Mike Schneider)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Nov16.081619.6137@mindspring.com>, afischer@mindspring.com (Aiko Fischer) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

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

-- 
Mike Schneider
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From mnilsson@rwth-aachen.de Tue Nov 19 18:58:19 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Nov17.201219.3054@unam.mx>, mschneider@unam.mx (Mike Schneider) writes:
> The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus.

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

-- 
=== Marisol Nilsson ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik
"When every node is whole, the channel opens."

From jfischer@utexas.edu Wed Nov 20 05:35:19 1996
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From: jfischer@utexas.edu (Jens Fischer)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Nov16.081619.6137@mindspring.com>, afischer@mindspring.com (Aiko Fischer) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

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

PGP Public key available via finger or upon request.

-- 
Jens Fischer
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin.
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From hkim@ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 21 15:02:19 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Nov17.201219.3054@unam.mx>, mschneider@unam.mx (Mike Schneider) 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.

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=== Hugo Kim ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
"Hold for relay."