From agonzalez@utexas.edu Thu Jun 13 21:37:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!agonzalez From: agonzalez@utexas.edu (Andrei González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:37:18 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. -- Andrei González -- University of Texas at Austin "Row 14. No joke." From ekim@uu.net Thu Jun 13 23:53:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!ekim From: ekim@uu.net (Elaine Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun13.235318.1024@uu.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 23:53:18 GMT References: <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu>, agonzalez@utexas.edu (Andrei González) 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. 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Elaine Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tfischer@rwth-aachen.de Fri Jun 14 20:08:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!tfischer From: tfischer@rwth-aachen.de (Tomas Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun14.200818.1720@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 20:08:18 GMT References: <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu>, agonzalez@utexas.edu (Andrei González) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Tomas Fischer Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From kreyes@kth.se Sat Jun 15 12:05:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!kreyes From: kreyes@kth.se (Kenji Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun15.120518.4227@kth.se> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:05:18 GMT References: <1996Jun13.213718.4517@utexas.edu> <1996Jun14.200818.1720@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun14.200818.1720@rwth-aachen.de>, tfischer@rwth-aachen.de (Tomas Fischer) writes: > 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. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Kenji Reyes "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / AmigaOS 3.1