From amacdonald@tum.de Wed Apr 26 15:21:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!amacdonald From: amacdonald@tum.de (Amy MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 15:21:33 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. -- === Amy MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "They will send a copy in my place." From lpark@cern.ch Thu Apr 27 00:51:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!lpark From: lpark@cern.ch (Lisa Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Apr27.005133.2362@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:51:33 GMT References: <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de>, amacdonald@tum.de (Amy MacDonald) 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Lisa Park -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Marcus is not one man." From kpopov@hanse.de Fri Apr 28 21:49:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!kpopov From: kpopov@hanse.de (Kirsty Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Apr28.214933.3262@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 21:49:33 GMT References: <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de> <1995Apr27.005133.2362@cern.ch> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr27.005133.2362@cern.ch>, lpark@cern.ch (Lisa Park) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Kirsty Popov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From gmartinez@uu.net Fri Apr 28 23:39:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!gmartinez From: gmartinez@uu.net (Göran Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Apr28.233933.4881@uu.net> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 23:39:33 GMT References: <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de>, amacdonald@tum.de (Amy MacDonald) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- === Göran Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From aweber@uni-hamburg.de Sun Apr 30 18:11:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!aweber From: aweber@uni-hamburg.de (Anton Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Apr30.181133.1922@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:11:33 GMT References: <1995Apr26.152133.6104@tum.de> <1995Apr28.233933.4881@uu.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr28.233933.4881@uu.net>, gmartinez@uu.net (Göran Martínez) 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! -- Anton Weber US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy."