From meriksson@illinois.edu Fri Jun 10 16:55:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!meriksson From: meriksson@illinois.edu (Mike Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:55:26 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Mike Eriksson | meriksson@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: CC29 ADE7 7D9A B7B4 "Keep the channels open." From mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jun 11 04:52:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Marisol MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun11.045226.2548@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 04:52:26 GMT References: <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu>, meriksson@illinois.edu (Mike Eriksson) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > 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. -- === Marisol MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From rkim@pacbell.net Sat Jun 11 09:18:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!rkim From: rkim@pacbell.net (Renata Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun11.091826.9305@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 09:18:26 GMT References: <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu>, meriksson@illinois.edu (Mike Eriksson) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Renata Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From mhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jun 12 20:53:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!mhernandez From: mhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Morag Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun12.205326.1319@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 20:53:26 GMT References: <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu> <1994Jun11.045226.2548@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun11.045226.2548@rwth-aachen.de>, mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Marisol 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. -- Morag Hernández Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From jgonzalez@stanford.edu Wed Jun 15 00:00:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!jgonzalez From: jgonzalez@stanford.edu (Julien González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Jun15.000026.3806@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 00:00:26 GMT References: <1994Jun10.165526.6430@illinois.edu> <1994Jun11.091826.9305@pacbell.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Jun11.091826.9305@pacbell.net>, rkim@pacbell.net (Renata Kim) writes: > 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! 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. -- Julien González -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Marcus is not one man."