From fsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de Wed Sep 07 06:58:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!fsuzuki From: fsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep07.065857.6169@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 06:58:57 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- === Fiona Suzuki === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "Marcus is not one man." From rkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de Wed Sep 07 23:18:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!rkarlsson From: rkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de (Renata Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep07.231857.3977@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 23:18:57 GMT References: <1994Sep07.065857.6169@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep07.065857.6169@rwth-aachen.de>, fsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Suzuki) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. 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. -- Renata Karlsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rdubois@illinois.edu Fri Sep 09 10:10:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!rdubois From: rdubois@illinois.edu (Renata Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Sep09.101057.7670@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 10:10:57 GMT References: <1994Sep07.065857.6169@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep07.065857.6169@rwth-aachen.de>, fsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Suzuki) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Renata Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0