From fkowalski@kth.se Sat Jul 16 15:03:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!fkowalski From: fkowalski@kth.se (Fiona Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 15:03:04 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. 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. -- Fiona Kowalski -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From acampbell@inria.fr Mon Jul 18 07:47:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!acampbell From: acampbell@inria.fr (Anton Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul18.074704.8312@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 07:47:04 GMT References: <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se>, fkowalski@kth.se (Fiona Kowalski) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Anton Campbell Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dsouza@cmu.edu Mon Jul 18 10:49:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!dsouza From: dsouza@cmu.edu (Dmitri Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul18.104904.3768@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 10:49:04 GMT References: <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se>, fkowalski@kth.se (Fiona Kowalski) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Dmitri Souza -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From adubois@panix.com Mon Jul 18 18:58:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!adubois From: adubois@panix.com (Astrid Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul18.185804.9317@panix.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 18:58:04 GMT References: <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se> <1994Jul18.104904.3768@cmu.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul18.104904.3768@cmu.edu>, dsouza@cmu.edu (Dmitri Souza) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Astrid Dubois SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mpetrov@unam.mx Tue Jul 19 17:23:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!mpetrov From: mpetrov@unam.mx (Morag Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul19.172304.3541@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 17:23:04 GMT References: <1994Jul16.150304.5345@kth.se> <1994Jul18.074704.8312@inria.fr> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul18.074704.8312@inria.fr>, acampbell@inria.fr (Anton Campbell) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Morag Petrov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------