From fsilva@tum.de Thu Dec 07 09:06:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!fsilva From: fsilva@tum.de (Fiona Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 09:06:34 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- === Fiona Silva === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "Hold for relay." From mkuznetsov@demon.co.uk Sat Dec 09 08:04:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!mkuznetsov From: mkuznetsov@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 08:04:34 GMT References: <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de>, fsilva@tum.de (Fiona Silva) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Mikhail Kuznetsov "Do not worship the copy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dkang@stanford.edu Sun Dec 10 10:04:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!dkang From: dkang@stanford.edu (Dong-hyun Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec10.100434.2016@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 10:04:34 GMT References: <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de> <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk>, mkuznetsov@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Kuznetsov) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- === Dong-hyun Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Marcus is not one man." From lmacdonald@uni-hamburg.de Sun Dec 10 12:49:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@uni-hamburg.de (Liam MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec10.124934.4054@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 12:49:34 GMT References: <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de> <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk> <1995Dec10.100434.2016@stanford.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec10.100434.2016@stanford.edu>, dkang@stanford.edu (Dong-hyun Kang) 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. -- Liam MacDonald Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From gmacdonald@mit.edu Tue Dec 12 03:42:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!gmacdonald From: gmacdonald@mit.edu (Göran MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec12.034234.5117@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 03:42:34 GMT References: <1995Dec07.090634.9260@tum.de> <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec09.080434.7528@demon.co.uk>, mkuznetsov@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Kuznetsov) 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. -- Göran MacDonald "Row 14. No joke." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1