From mschneider@illinois.edu Sun Nov 19 09:08:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!mschneider From: mschneider@illinois.edu (Marta Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov19.090825.4167@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:08:25 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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 room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Marta Schneider | mschneider@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 3739 C08D 02D0 051F "Keep the channels open." From bwatanabe@delphi.com Mon Nov 20 19:12:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@delphi.com (Bastien Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov20.191225.2433@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19:12:25 GMT References: <1995Nov19.090825.4167@illinois.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov19.090825.4167@illinois.edu>, mschneider@illinois.edu (Marta Schneider) 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. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Bastien Watanabe *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0