From snakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 07 16:06:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!snakamura From: snakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sven Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 16:06:14 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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 LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Sven Nakamura Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From arobertson@panix.com Mon Oct 07 21:00:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!arobertson From: arobertson@panix.com (Andrei Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Oct07.210014.8986@panix.com> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 21:00:14 GMT References: <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, snakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sven Nakamura) writes: > 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Andrei Robertson | arobertson@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: C0FD 27CE FC1A 965A "Keep the channels open." From msmirnov@purdue.edu Tue Oct 08 20:53:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!purdue!msmirnov From: msmirnov@purdue.edu (Mikhail Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Oct08.205314.3642@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 20:53:14 GMT References: <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Oct07.210014.8986@panix.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct07.210014.8986@panix.com>, arobertson@panix.com (Andrei Robertson) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- === Mikhail Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "Hold for relay." From tlindqvist@stanford.edu Thu Oct 10 05:41:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@stanford.edu (Tobias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Oct10.054114.3927@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 05:41:14 GMT References: <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct07.160614.7506@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, snakamura@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sven Nakamura) 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. -- Tobias Lindqvist "Row 14. No joke." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13