From dlindqvist@mit.edu Sun Jun 04 04:59:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!dlindqvist From: dlindqvist@mit.edu (Dave Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 04:59:36 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Dave Lindqvist | dlindqvist@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: E7E0 7468 E18A 7A0E "Keep the channels open." From jjohansson@inria.fr Mon Jun 05 12:06:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!jjohansson From: jjohansson@inria.fr (Joachim Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jun05.120636.5765@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 12:06:36 GMT References: <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu>, dlindqvist@mit.edu (Dave Lindqvist) 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Joachim Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From asokolov@panix.com Tue Jun 06 20:45:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!asokolov From: asokolov@panix.com (Andrei Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jun06.204536.8238@panix.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 20:45:36 GMT References: <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu> <1995Jun05.120636.5765@inria.fr> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun05.120636.5765@inria.fr>, jjohansson@inria.fr (Joachim Johansson) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Andrei Sokolov "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From ksuzuki@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Jun 08 09:27:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!ksuzuki From: ksuzuki@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kirsty Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jun08.092736.9028@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 09:27:36 GMT References: <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun04.045936.8122@mit.edu>, dlindqvist@mit.edu (Dave Lindqvist) 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. -- Kirsty Suzuki Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.