From jtakahashi@titech.ac.jp Fri Aug 26 00:00:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!jtakahashi From: jtakahashi@titech.ac.jp (Ji-woo Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug26.000001.2153@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 00:00:01 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. -- Ji-woo Takahashi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dokonkwo@kth.se Fri Aug 26 04:43:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!dokonkwo From: dokonkwo@kth.se (Diego Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug26.044301.8448@kth.se> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 04:43:01 GMT References: <1994Aug26.000001.2153@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug26.000001.2153@titech.ac.jp>, jtakahashi@titech.ac.jp (Ji-woo Takahashi) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- Diego Okonkwo Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From bgonzalez@cmu.edu Fri Aug 26 15:50:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@cmu.edu (Bill González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug26.155001.7657@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 15:50:01 GMT References: <1994Aug26.000001.2153@titech.ac.jp> <1994Aug26.044301.8448@kth.se> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Aug26.044301.8448@kth.se>, dokonkwo@kth.se (Diego Okonkwo) writes: > My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. 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. -- Bill González Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.