From mramirez@berkeley.edu Sat Sep 24 20:08:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!mramirez From: mramirez@berkeley.edu (Min-jun Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep24.200834.1455@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 20:08:34 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Min-jun Ramírez -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From slaurent@earthlink.net Mon Sep 26 05:46:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!slaurent From: slaurent@earthlink.net (Steve Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep26.054634.1585@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 05:46:34 GMT References: <1994Sep24.200834.1455@berkeley.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994Sep24.200834.1455@berkeley.edu>, mramirez@berkeley.edu (Min-jun Ramírez) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Steve Laurent Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hkang@earthlink.net Mon Sep 26 23:25:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!hkang From: hkang@earthlink.net (Hana Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep26.232534.8146@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 23:25:34 GMT References: <1994Sep24.200834.1455@berkeley.edu> <1994Sep26.054634.1585@earthlink.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep26.054634.1585@earthlink.net>, slaurent@earthlink.net (Steve Laurent) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. 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. -- Hana Kang "Marcus is not one man." Macintosh IIfx / AmigaOS 3.1