From akim@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jun 05 12:31:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!akim From: akim@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun05.123127.8294@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:31:27 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Aiko Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From afournier@inria.fr Fri Jun 07 04:29:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!afournier From: afournier@inria.fr (Amy Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun07.042927.6008@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 04:29:27 GMT References: <1996Jun05.123127.8294@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun05.123127.8294@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, akim@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Aiko Kim) 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. -- Amy Fournier "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From bwatanabe@stanford.edu Fri Jun 07 06:07:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@stanford.edu (Bruno Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun07.060727.3880@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 06:07:27 GMT References: <1996Jun05.123127.8294@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Jun07.042927.6008@inria.fr> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun07.042927.6008@inria.fr>, afournier@inria.fr (Amy Fournier) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- === Bruno Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dreyes@utexas.edu Sat Jun 08 12:10:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!dreyes From: dreyes@utexas.edu (Diego Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun08.121027.1797@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 12:10:27 GMT References: <1996Jun05.123127.8294@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Jun07.042927.6008@inria.fr> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun07.042927.6008@inria.fr>, afournier@inria.fr (Amy Fournier) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Diego Reyes | dreyes@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: A769 523E 7F46 9567 "Keep the channels open."