From llaurent@demon.co.uk Fri Jun 10 13:44:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!llaurent From: llaurent@demon.co.uk (Liam Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun10.134401.6584@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 13:44:01 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. 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. -- === Liam Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From eivanov@kth.se Fri Jun 10 20:58:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!eivanov From: eivanov@kth.se (Emi Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun10.205801.5875@kth.se> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 20:58:01 GMT References: <1994Jun10.134401.6584@demon.co.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jun10.134401.6584@demon.co.uk>, llaurent@demon.co.uk (Liam Laurent) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Emi Ivanov Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."