From cschneider@mindspring.com Sun May 07 13:55:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!cschneider From: cschneider@mindspring.com (Callum Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May07.135519.4783@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 13:55:19 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Callum Schneider US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From gjohansson@panix.com Sun May 07 23:17:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!gjohansson From: gjohansson@panix.com (Graham Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May07.231719.6632@panix.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 23:17:19 GMT References: <1995May07.135519.4783@mindspring.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995May07.135519.4783@mindspring.com>, cschneider@mindspring.com (Callum Schneider) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Graham Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From lchoi@mindspring.com Tue May 09 08:01:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!lchoi From: lchoi@mindspring.com (Lars Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May09.080119.9951@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 08:01:19 GMT References: <1995May07.135519.4783@mindspring.com> <1995May07.231719.6632@panix.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May07.231719.6632@panix.com>, gjohansson@panix.com (Graham Johansson) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Lars Choi -- MindSpring Enterprises "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."