From inilsson@inria.fr Sun May 19 20:52:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!inilsson From: inilsson@inria.fr (Ines Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996May19.205209.6082@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 20:52:09 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt? -- Ines Nilsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy." From tsantos@cmu.edu Tue May 21 10:26:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!tsantos From: tsantos@cmu.edu (Tyler Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996May21.102609.5108@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 10:26:09 GMT References: <1996May19.205209.6082@inria.fr> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996May19.205209.6082@inria.fr>, inilsson@inria.fr (Ines Nilsson) writes: > Where are Nodes 11, 12, 13, and 14 physically located? Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Tyler Santos "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari Falcon 030 / AmigaOS 3.1 From hjohansson@berkeley.edu Tue May 21 12:45:09 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!hjohansson From: hjohansson@berkeley.edu (Hana Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1996May21.124509.8449@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:45:09 GMT References: <1996May19.205209.6082@inria.fr> <1996May21.102609.5108@cmu.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996May21.102609.5108@cmu.edu>, tsantos@cmu.edu (Tyler Santos) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Hana Johansson -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Marcus is not one man."