From mokonkwo@titech.ac.jp Fri Jan 20 11:26:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!mokonkwo From: mokonkwo@titech.ac.jp (Mei Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan20.112638.7625@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 11:26:38 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- === Mei Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From ltakahashi@cam.ac.uk Sat Jan 21 06:55:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!ltakahashi From: ltakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Liam Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan21.065538.5522@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 06:55:38 GMT References: <1995Jan20.112638.7625@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan20.112638.7625@titech.ac.jp>, mokonkwo@titech.ac.jp (Mei Okonkwo) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. 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. -- Liam Takahashi "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Decstation 5000/200 / System 7.5.1