From kandersson@unam.mx Mon Jan 03 17:51:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!unam!kandersson From: kandersson@unam.mx (Kenji Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jan03.175129.5051@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 17:51:29 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- === Kenji Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hkim@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jan 05 13:03:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!hkim From: hkim@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jan05.130329.1011@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 13:03:29 GMT References: <1994Jan03.175129.5051@unam.mx> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jan03.175129.5051@unam.mx>, kandersson@unam.mx (Kenji Andersson) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Heather Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From lcho@crescentcity-courier.com Mon Jan 09 06:40:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!crescentcity-courier!lcho From: lcho@crescentcity-courier.com (Linda Cho) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (LAFD Incident #89-0909-B2 & LA Times Clipping) Message-ID: <1995Jan09.064000.1989@crescentcity-courier.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 06:40:00 GMT References: <1994Jan03.175129.5051@unam.mx> Organization: Crescent City Courier - Investigative Desk NNTP-Posting-Host: crescentcity-courier.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 I pulled the microfiche from the Los Angeles Public Library and filed a Public Records Act request with LAFD Battalion 5 (Hollywood). Both the September 10, 1989 Los Angeles Times brief (Part II, p. 14) and LAFD Incident Report #89-0909-B2 are real, and I have posted the full verbatim transcripts in Entry #22 (s23876.txt) of this newsgroup and in the /forensics/ terminal (type 'KESTREL' or 'B2-114-FIRE'). -- Linda Cho / Crescent City Courier