From tnovak@ox.ac.uk Sat Mar 18 07:47:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!tnovak From: tnovak@ox.ac.uk (Tyler Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar18.074721.5638@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:47:21 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Tyler Novak | tnovak@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 9459 8BA8 A446 3574 "Keep the channels open." From mivanov@clari.net Sat Mar 18 19:46:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!mivanov From: mivanov@clari.net (Mike Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar18.194621.1970@clari.net> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 19:46:21 GMT References: <1995Mar18.074721.5638@ox.ac.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar18.074721.5638@ox.ac.uk>, tnovak@ox.ac.uk (Tyler Novak) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- === Mike Ivanov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From hjohansson@earthlink.net Sun Mar 19 08:13:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!earthlink!hjohansson From: hjohansson@earthlink.net (Hana Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar19.081321.8317@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:13:21 GMT References: <1995Mar18.074721.5638@ox.ac.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar18.074721.5638@ox.ac.uk>, tnovak@ox.ac.uk (Tyler Novak) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Hana Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0