From egirard@ox.ac.uk Fri May 27 20:13:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!egirard From: egirard@ox.ac.uk (Elaine Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994May27.201304.9824@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 20:13:04 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Elaine Girard US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From flopez@ox.ac.uk Sun May 29 16:17:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!flopez From: flopez@ox.ac.uk (Fiona López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994May29.161704.5984@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 16:17:04 GMT References: <1994May27.201304.9824@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994May27.201304.9824@ox.ac.uk>, egirard@ox.ac.uk (Elaine Girard) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- Fiona López Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kstewart@rwth-aachen.de Tue May 31 17:24:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!kstewart From: kstewart@rwth-aachen.de (Kirsty Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994May31.172404.3573@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 17:24:04 GMT References: <1994May27.201304.9824@ox.ac.uk> <1994May29.161704.5984@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994May29.161704.5984@ox.ac.uk>, flopez@ox.ac.uk (Fiona López) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Kirsty Stewart *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From npetrov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Jun 02 06:57:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!npetrov From: npetrov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadia Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun02.065704.9158@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 06:57:04 GMT References: <1994May27.201304.9824@ox.ac.uk> <1994May29.161704.5984@ox.ac.uk> <1994May31.172404.3573@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994May31.172404.3573@rwth-aachen.de>, kstewart@rwth-aachen.de (Kirsty Stewart) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Nadia Petrov -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"