From akuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de Sun May 28 03:34:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!akuznetsov From: akuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 03:34:56 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Astrid Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From jmuller@mindspring.com Tue May 30 02:54:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!jmuller From: jmuller@mindspring.com (Jen Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May30.025456.9819@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 02:54:56 GMT References: <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de>, akuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid Kuznetsov) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- Jen Müller Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------ From brodriguez@pacbell.net Tue May 30 18:34:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!brodriguez From: brodriguez@pacbell.net (Bastien Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May30.183456.1543@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 18:34:56 GMT References: <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de>, akuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid Kuznetsov) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Bastien Rodríguez "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Macintosh IIfx / FreeBSD 2.1 From jfischer@kth.se Wed May 31 14:30:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!jfischer From: jfischer@kth.se (Joachim Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May31.143056.9570@kth.se> Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 14:30:56 GMT References: <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de> <1995May30.183456.1543@pacbell.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May30.183456.1543@pacbell.net>, brodriguez@pacbell.net (Bastien Rodríguez) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Joachim Fischer US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Hold for relay." From klindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jun 02 05:59:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!klindqvist From: klindqvist@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Karen Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jun02.055956.5799@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 05:59:56 GMT References: <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May28.033456.9822@uni-hamburg.de>, akuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Astrid Kuznetsov) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). 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. -- Karen Lindqvist SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Row 14. No joke."