From ehughes@panix.com Sat Nov 16 22:11:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!ehughes From: ehughes@panix.com (Elaine Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Nov16.221121.8511@panix.com> Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 22:11:21 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. 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? -- Elaine Hughes -- Public Access Unix of New York "Do not worship the copy." From tmartinez@berkeley.edu Sun Nov 17 05:42:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!tmartinez From: tmartinez@berkeley.edu (Takeshi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Nov17.054221.4632@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 05:42:21 GMT References: <1996Nov16.221121.8511@panix.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov16.221121.8511@panix.com>, ehughes@panix.com (Elaine Hughes) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- Takeshi Martínez Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From treyes@tum.de Tue Nov 19 00:36:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!treyes From: treyes@tum.de (Tobias Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Nov19.003621.6961@tum.de> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:36:21 GMT References: <1996Nov16.221121.8511@panix.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov16.221121.8511@panix.com>, ehughes@panix.com (Elaine Hughes) 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. -- Tobias Reyes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0