From knakamura@ox.ac.uk Mon May 20 15:20:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!knakamura From: knakamura@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996May20.152036.4251@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:20:36 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- === Kenji Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From oandersson@kth.se Tue May 21 04:23:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!oandersson From: oandersson@kth.se (Olga Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996May21.042336.9435@kth.se> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 04:23:36 GMT References: <1996May20.152036.4251@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996May20.152036.4251@ox.ac.uk>, knakamura@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Nakamura) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Olga Andersson "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Decstation 5000/200 / AmigaOS 3.1 From dnovak@hanse.de Thu May 23 04:11:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!dnovak From: dnovak@hanse.de (Diego Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996May23.041136.1957@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 04:11:36 GMT References: <1996May20.152036.4251@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996May20.152036.4251@ox.ac.uk>, knakamura@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Nakamura) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Nodes 11 through 14 lost their logbooks in that fire. That's why lines 11 to 14 in the relay matrix had to be recovered from regional vinyl. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Diego Novak US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "They will send a copy in my place."