From lfournier@ox.ac.uk Tue Nov 15 17:25:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!lfournier From: lfournier@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Nov15.172559.7195@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 17:25:59 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Lucia Fournier Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bcampbell@illinois.edu Wed Nov 16 04:05:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!bcampbell From: bcampbell@illinois.edu (Bruno Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Nov16.040559.2450@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 04:05:59 GMT References: <1994Nov15.172559.7195@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov15.172559.7195@ox.ac.uk>, lfournier@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Fournier) 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 runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- === Bruno Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From sito@inria.fr Wed Nov 16 20:37:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!sito From: sito@inria.fr (Sun-mi Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Nov16.203759.4857@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:37:59 GMT References: <1994Nov15.172559.7195@ox.ac.uk> <1994Nov16.040559.2450@illinois.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov16.040559.2450@illinois.edu>, bcampbell@illinois.edu (Bruno Campbell) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. 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. -- Sun-mi Ito | sito@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: 9182 4F7B 4772 61C2 "Keep the channels open." From landersson@uu.net Wed Nov 16 23:56:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!landersson From: landersson@uu.net (Lucia Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Nov16.235659.8868@uu.net> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 23:56:59 GMT References: <1994Nov15.172559.7195@ox.ac.uk> <1994Nov16.040559.2450@illinois.edu> <1994Nov16.203759.4857@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov16.203759.4857@inria.fr>, sito@inria.fr (Sun-mi Ito) 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. -- Lucia Andersson "Row 14. No joke." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1