From tramirez@clari.net Tue Jan 24 16:42:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!tramirez From: tramirez@clari.net (Tobias Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan24.164228.1848@clari.net> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 16:42:28 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Tobias Ramírez "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Decstation 5000/200 / FreeBSD 2.1 From rduarte@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 25 10:07:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!rduarte From: rduarte@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan25.100728.8576@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 10:07:28 GMT References: <1995Jan24.164228.1848@clari.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan24.164228.1848@clari.net>, tramirez@clari.net (Tobias Ramírez) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Rodrigo Duarte US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From ksuzuki@uni-hamburg.de Thu Jan 26 23:45:28 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!ksuzuki From: ksuzuki@uni-hamburg.de (Karen Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan26.234528.2702@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 23:45:28 GMT References: <1995Jan24.164228.1848@clari.net> <1995Jan25.100728.8576@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan25.100728.8576@uni-hamburg.de>, rduarte@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Duarte) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before 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. -- Karen Suzuki Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."