From mcampbell@mit.edu Thu Oct 13 03:19:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!mcampbell From: mcampbell@mit.edu (Mathieu Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Oct13.031948.7657@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 03:19:48 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. 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? -- Mathieu Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From mlopez@ox.ac.uk Fri Oct 14 03:32:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!mlopez From: mlopez@ox.ac.uk (Mikhail López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Oct14.033248.2117@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 03:32:48 GMT References: <1994Oct13.031948.7657@mit.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct13.031948.7657@mit.edu>, mcampbell@mit.edu (Mathieu Campbell) 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. -- Mikhail López Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.