From bpopov@illinois.edu Tue Nov 21 06:57:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!bpopov From: bpopov@illinois.edu (Bill Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov21.065720.6293@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 06:57:20 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Bill Popov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mstewart@hanse.de Wed Nov 22 05:49:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!mstewart From: mstewart@hanse.de (Morag Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov22.054920.7032@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 05:49:20 GMT References: <1995Nov21.065720.6293@illinois.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov21.065720.6293@illinois.edu>, bpopov@illinois.edu (Bill Popov) 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. -- === Morag Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Do not worship the copy." From vlaurent@unam.mx Fri Nov 24 05:26:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!vlaurent From: vlaurent@unam.mx (Valeria Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov24.052620.9542@unam.mx> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 05:26:20 GMT References: <1995Nov21.065720.6293@illinois.edu> <1995Nov22.054920.7032@hanse.de> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov22.054920.7032@hanse.de>, mstewart@hanse.de (Morag Stewart) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Valeria Laurent "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From jnilsson@pipeline.com Sun Nov 26 05:58:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!jnilsson From: jnilsson@pipeline.com (Joachim Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Nov26.055820.1186@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 05:58:20 GMT References: <1995Nov21.065720.6293@illinois.edu> <1995Nov22.054920.7032@hanse.de> <1995Nov24.052620.9542@unam.mx> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov24.052620.9542@unam.mx>, vlaurent@unam.mx (Valeria Laurent) writes: > 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Joachim Nilsson -- The Pipeline Internet Network "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."