From dkang@netcom.com Mon Oct 23 23:25:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!dkang From: dkang@netcom.com (Dave Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct23.232555.1141@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 23:25:55 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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 LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Dave Kang Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tandersson@netcom.com Wed Oct 25 01:16:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!netcom!tandersson From: tandersson@netcom.com (Thiago Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct25.011655.6485@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 01:16:55 GMT References: <1995Oct23.232555.1141@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct23.232555.1141@netcom.com>, dkang@netcom.com (Dave Kang) 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. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Thiago Andersson "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From egonzalez@kiae.su Thu Oct 26 12:09:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!egonzalez From: egonzalez@kiae.su (Elaine González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct26.120955.9254@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:09:55 GMT References: <1995Oct23.232555.1141@netcom.com> <1995Oct25.011655.6485@netcom.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct25.011655.6485@netcom.com>, tandersson@netcom.com (Thiago Andersson) 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. -- === Elaine González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."