From mbrennan@pacbell.net Tue Aug 01 21:33:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!mbrennan From: mbrennan@pacbell.net (Mateo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 21:33:07 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Mateo Brennan US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From tsouza@illinois.edu Wed Aug 02 09:55:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!tsouza From: tsouza@illinois.edu (Thiago Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Aug02.095507.7469@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:55:07 GMT References: <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net>, mbrennan@pacbell.net (Mateo Brennan) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). 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. -- Thiago Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Wed Aug 02 11:32:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!tkuznetsov From: tkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Tobias Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Aug02.113207.8742@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 11:32:07 GMT References: <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net>, mbrennan@pacbell.net (Mateo Brennan) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Tobias Kuznetsov | tkuznetsov@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 789A CA61 7752 1823 "Keep the channels open." From rmartinez@uni-hamburg.de Fri Aug 04 02:04:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!rmartinez From: rmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Renata Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Aug04.020407.7086@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 02:04:07 GMT References: <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net>, mbrennan@pacbell.net (Mateo Brennan) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Renata Martínez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lduarte@delphi.com Sun Aug 06 01:44:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!lduarte From: lduarte@delphi.com (Liam Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Aug06.014407.6108@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 01:44:07 GMT References: <1995Aug01.213307.8359@pacbell.net> <1995Aug02.095507.7469@illinois.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug02.095507.7469@illinois.edu>, tsouza@illinois.edu (Thiago Souza) writes: > 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. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Liam Duarte "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13