From lhughes@berkeley.edu Fri Mar 24 23:05:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!lhughes From: lhughes@berkeley.edu (Lars Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 23:05:55 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Lars Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From itakahashi@rwth-aachen.de Sat Mar 25 21:10:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!itakahashi From: itakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Ines Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar25.211055.3256@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 21:10:55 GMT References: <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu>, lhughes@berkeley.edu (Lars Hughes) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- Ines Takahashi Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ahughes@cam.ac.uk Mon Mar 27 09:07:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!ahughes From: ahughes@cam.ac.uk (Astrid Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar27.090755.4855@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 09:07:55 GMT References: <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu> <1995Mar25.211055.3256@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar25.211055.3256@rwth-aachen.de>, itakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Ines Takahashi) writes: > 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Astrid Hughes | ahughes@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 666E C6D3 4965 4C69 "Keep the channels open." From smoreno@utexas.edu Tue Mar 28 11:05:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!smoreno From: smoreno@utexas.edu (Sun-mi Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar28.110555.8901@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:05:55 GMT References: <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu> <1995Mar25.211055.3256@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Mar27.090755.4855@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar27.090755.4855@cam.ac.uk>, ahughes@cam.ac.uk (Astrid Hughes) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sun-mi Moreno US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lchoi@purdue.edu Wed Mar 29 19:11:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!lchoi From: lchoi@purdue.edu (Liam Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar29.191155.1591@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:11:55 GMT References: <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar24.230555.4650@berkeley.edu>, lhughes@berkeley.edu (Lars Hughes) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Liam Choi | lchoi@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 6370 342C B6E7 41E9 "Keep the channels open."