From pweber@ox.ac.uk Tue Apr 19 06:40:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!pweber From: pweber@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr19.064022.3121@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 06:40:22 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- Pavel Weber US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Apr 19 17:40:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!hschneider From: hschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Heather Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr19.174022.7134@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 17:40:22 GMT References: <1994Apr19.064022.3121@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Apr19.064022.3121@ox.ac.uk>, pweber@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Weber) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- Heather Schneider Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tstewart@cam.ac.uk Thu Apr 21 13:18:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!tstewart From: tstewart@cam.ac.uk (Tyler Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr21.131822.1229@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:18:22 GMT References: <1994Apr19.064022.3121@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr19.064022.3121@ox.ac.uk>, pweber@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Weber) writes: > 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. 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. -- Tyler Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------