From operez@ox.ac.uk Sun Dec 10 20:13:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!operez From: operez@ox.ac.uk (Olga Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 20:13:32 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Olga Pérez -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Marcus is not one man." From rsouza@hanse.de Mon Dec 11 07:37:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!rsouza From: rsouza@hanse.de (Renata Souza) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec11.073732.3987@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 07:37:32 GMT References: <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk>, operez@ox.ac.uk (Olga Pérez) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. -- Renata Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From dduarte@kth.se Wed Dec 13 09:24:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!dduarte From: dduarte@kth.se (Diego Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec13.092432.6021@kth.se> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:24:32 GMT References: <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk>, operez@ox.ac.uk (Olga Pérez) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Diego Duarte US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From lmacdonald@kth.se Thu Dec 14 09:18:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@kth.se (Liam MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec14.091832.8527@kth.se> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 09:18:32 GMT References: <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk>, operez@ox.ac.uk (Olga Pérez) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Liam MacDonald US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke." From plopez@purdue.edu Fri Dec 15 00:22:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!plopez From: plopez@purdue.edu (Pavel López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Dec15.002232.5362@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:22:32 GMT References: <1995Dec10.201332.7344@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec14.091832.8527@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec14.091832.8527@kth.se>, lmacdonald@kth.se (Liam MacDonald) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Pavel López Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."