From ldubois@stanford.edu Mon Jun 05 03:52:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!ldubois From: ldubois@stanford.edu (Lucia Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery Message-ID: <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 03:52:25 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown. Three days before the September 9, 1989 fire at Orion Tower, an unmarked flatbed truck arrived at 03:00 and loaded all three unopened pallets back up. The warehouse workers were explicitly forbidden from unbanding the crates or checking inventory barcodes. Where were those pallets taken? To Ashford Poly? To a military storage depot? -- Lucia Dubois Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mandersson@utexas.edu Mon Jun 05 23:29:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!mandersson From: mandersson@utexas.edu (Min-jun Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery Message-ID: <1995Jun05.232925.2661@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 23:29:25 GMT References: <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu>, ldubois@stanford.edu (Lucia Dubois) writes: > Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown. > Three days before the September 9, 1989 fire at Orion Tower, an unmarked flatbed truck arrived at 03:00 and loaded all three unopened pallets back up. Every warehouse has 'Special Projects' pallets. Usually it's high-value promotional giveaways or point-of-sale displays that managers don't want stolen. -- Min-jun Andersson -- University of Texas at Austin "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From nmacdonald@uu.net Tue Jun 06 02:57:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uu!nmacdonald From: nmacdonald@uu.net (Nadine MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery Message-ID: <1995Jun06.025725.8014@uu.net> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 02:57:25 GMT References: <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu> <1995Jun05.232925.2661@utexas.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun05.232925.2661@utexas.edu>, mandersson@utexas.edu (Min-jun Andersson) writes: > Every warehouse has 'Special Projects' pallets. Usually it's high-value promotional giveaways or point-of-sale displays that managers don't want stolen. Those pallets contained the prototype neural processors running Stardust Unit-7 before they migrated the system to the mainframe in room B2-114. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Nadine MacDonald Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Marcus is not one man." From mnovak@purdue.edu Wed Jun 07 18:49:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!mnovak From: mnovak@purdue.edu (Mike Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The Glendale/Burbank Orion warehouse sealed pallets mystery Message-ID: <1995Jun07.184925.2843@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 18:49:25 GMT References: <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun05.035225.3684@stanford.edu>, ldubois@stanford.edu (Lucia Dubois) writes: > Investigating the shipping manifests from Orion's Burbank facility right before the 1989 shutdown. The flatbed truck had government GSA license plates. Someone tracked the dispatch order to an airfield in Palmdale. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Mike Novak Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.