From dkang@earthlink.net Tue Feb 06 03:22:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!dkang From: dkang@earthlink.net (Dave Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 03:22:45 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Dave Kang Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From skowalski@tum.de Wed Feb 07 17:26:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!skowalski From: skowalski@tum.de (Seo-yeon Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Feb07.172645.6132@tum.de> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 17:26:45 GMT References: <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net>, dkang@earthlink.net (Dave Kang) 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. -- Seo-yeon Kowalski Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mrobertson@cmu.edu Thu Feb 08 10:36:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!mrobertson From: mrobertson@cmu.edu (Mateo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Feb08.103645.3914@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 10:36:45 GMT References: <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net>, dkang@earthlink.net (Dave Kang) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Mateo Robertson -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ookonkwo@kiae.su Thu Feb 08 22:15:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kiae!ookonkwo From: ookonkwo@kiae.su (Olga Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Feb08.221545.4428@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 22:15:45 GMT References: <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb06.032245.1787@earthlink.net>, dkang@earthlink.net (Dave Kang) writes: > 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. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Olga Okonkwo Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."