From arobertson@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jul 27 14:53:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!arobertson From: arobertson@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 14:53:56 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. 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. -- Amy Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aeriksson@rwth-aachen.de Mon Jul 29 13:07:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!aeriksson From: aeriksson@rwth-aachen.de (Anton Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jul29.130756.1481@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:07:56 GMT References: <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de>, arobertson@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Robertson) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Anton Eriksson | aeriksson@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 916F D0CF 0BC2 FD96 "Keep the channels open." From irobertson@mit.edu Wed Jul 31 12:16:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!irobertson From: irobertson@mit.edu (Ines Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jul31.121656.1249@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:16:56 GMT References: <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de>, arobertson@rwth-aachen.de (Amy Robertson) 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. -- Ines Robertson "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / SunOS 4.1.4 From mnovak@mit.edu Thu Aug 01 22:28:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!mnovak From: mnovak@mit.edu (Mathieu Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Aug01.222856.5204@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 22:28:56 GMT References: <1996Jul27.145356.4723@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Jul29.130756.1481@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul29.130756.1481@rwth-aachen.de>, aeriksson@rwth-aachen.de (Anton Eriksson) writes: > The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Mathieu Novak "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / TOS 4.04