From hkowalski@kiae.su Sat Aug 03 00:51:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!hkowalski From: hkowalski@kiae.su (Heather Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Aug03.005132.4985@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 00:51:32 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Heather Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From dduarte@ox.ac.uk Sat Aug 03 09:07:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!dduarte From: dduarte@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Aug03.090732.6264@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 09:07:32 GMT References: <1996Aug03.005132.4985@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug03.005132.4985@kiae.su>, hkowalski@kiae.su (Heather Kowalski) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > 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. -- Dong-hyun Duarte -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Hold for relay."