From jweber@earthlink.net Wed Apr 27 11:35:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!jweber From: jweber@earthlink.net (Jens Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr27.113556.8231@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 11:35:56 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Jens Weber Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From dlarsson@berkeley.edu Wed Apr 27 15:49:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!dlarsson From: dlarsson@berkeley.edu (Dong-hyun Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr27.154956.5658@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 15:49:56 GMT References: <1994Apr27.113556.8231@earthlink.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr27.113556.8231@earthlink.net>, jweber@earthlink.net (Jens Weber) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Dong-hyun Larsson | dlarsson@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: B8BB 2F1C 5857 A495 "Keep the channels open." From msilva@illinois.edu Fri Apr 29 01:13:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!msilva From: msilva@illinois.edu (Mike Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Apr29.011356.2005@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 01:13:56 GMT References: <1994Apr27.113556.8231@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr27.113556.8231@earthlink.net>, jweber@earthlink.net (Jens Weber) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- Mike Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0