From enilsson@illinois.edu Mon Mar 27 05:39:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!enilsson From: enilsson@illinois.edu (Élodie Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:39:37 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). 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. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Élodie Nilsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tpopov@cmu.edu Tue Mar 28 10:00:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!tpopov From: tpopov@cmu.edu (Tobias Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar28.100037.2470@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:00:37 GMT References: <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu>, enilsson@illinois.edu (Élodie Nilsson) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Tobias Popov Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Row 14. No joke." From kandersson@hanse.de Thu Mar 30 01:50:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!kandersson From: kandersson@hanse.de (Kirsty Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar30.015037.4305@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 01:50:37 GMT References: <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu>, enilsson@illinois.edu (Élodie Nilsson) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Kirsty Andersson "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." NeXTstation Turbo Color / TOS 4.04 From jnakamura@purdue.edu Fri Mar 31 02:09:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!jnakamura From: jnakamura@purdue.edu (Ji-woo Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar31.020937.7345@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 02:09:37 GMT References: <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar27.053937.3841@illinois.edu>, enilsson@illinois.edu (Élodie Nilsson) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Ji-woo Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------