From cpetrov@illinois.edu Fri Dec 20 10:50:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!cpetrov From: cpetrov@illinois.edu (Callum Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Dec20.105004.6612@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 10:50:04 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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 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. -- Callum Petrov | cpetrov@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F6FE 4940 0500 946E "Keep the channels open." From adubois@rwth-aachen.de Fri Dec 20 15:32:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!adubois From: adubois@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Dec20.153204.5876@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 15:32:04 GMT References: <1996Dec20.105004.6612@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec20.105004.6612@illinois.edu>, cpetrov@illinois.edu (Callum Petrov) 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. -- Amy Dubois | adubois@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 339C 6678 1B6B F96B "Keep the channels open." From mmacdonald@mit.edu Sun Dec 22 09:05:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@mit.edu (Marisol MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Dec22.090504.6941@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 09:05:04 GMT References: <1996Dec20.105004.6612@illinois.edu> <1996Dec20.153204.5876@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec20.153204.5876@rwth-aachen.de>, adubois@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Dubois) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. 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. -- Marisol MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From fsouza@clari.net Mon Dec 23 05:33:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!fsouza From: fsouza@clari.net (Freya Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Dec23.053304.5153@clari.net> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:33:04 GMT References: <1996Dec20.105004.6612@illinois.edu> <1996Dec20.153204.5876@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Dec20.153204.5876@rwth-aachen.de>, adubois@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Dubois) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Freya Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.