From mlee@mit.edu Fri Jul 08 23:03:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!mlee From: mlee@mit.edu (Matthias Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul08.230358.3416@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 23:03:58 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. -- Matthias Lee "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1 From snakamura@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 09 20:01:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!snakamura From: snakamura@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul09.200158.4046@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 20:01:58 GMT References: <1994Jul08.230358.3416@mit.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul08.230358.3416@mit.edu>, mlee@mit.edu (Matthias Lee) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Sven Nakamura Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From chernandez@berkeley.edu Sun Jul 10 03:14:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!chernandez From: chernandez@berkeley.edu (Callum Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jul10.031458.7897@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 03:14:58 GMT References: <1994Jul08.230358.3416@mit.edu> <1994Jul09.200158.4046@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul09.200158.4046@uni-hamburg.de>, snakamura@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Nakamura) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- Callum Hernández "Row 14. No joke." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / FreeBSD 2.1