From pduarte@uu.net Tue Mar 07 23:57:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!pduarte From: pduarte@uu.net (Pavel Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar07.235712.9561@uu.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 23:57:12 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Pavel Duarte "We don't sign stars. We build them." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / System 7.5.1 From tlindqvist@illinois.edu Wed Mar 08 11:23:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@illinois.edu (Tobias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar08.112312.4185@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 11:23:12 GMT References: <1995Mar07.235712.9561@uu.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Mar07.235712.9561@uu.net>, pduarte@uu.net (Pavel Duarte) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Tobias Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From vcampbell@demon.co.uk Thu Mar 09 17:49:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!vcampbell From: vcampbell@demon.co.uk (Valeria Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Mar09.174912.8945@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 17:49:12 GMT References: <1995Mar07.235712.9561@uu.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar07.235712.9561@uu.net>, pduarte@uu.net (Pavel Duarte) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. -- Valeria Campbell -- Demon Internet Services UK "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."