From osantos@ox.ac.uk Mon Aug 15 14:20:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!osantos From: osantos@ox.ac.uk (Olga Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug15.142049.4857@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 14:20:49 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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 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. -- === Olga Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From bpetrov@kth.se Tue Aug 16 17:38:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!bpetrov From: bpetrov@kth.se (Bill Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug16.173849.6649@kth.se> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 17:38:49 GMT References: <1994Aug15.142049.4857@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug15.142049.4857@ox.ac.uk>, osantos@ox.ac.uk (Olga Santos) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). 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! -- Bill Petrov "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From lrodriguez@mit.edu Tue Aug 16 18:54:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!lrodriguez From: lrodriguez@mit.edu (Liam Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug16.185449.4709@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 18:54:49 GMT References: <1994Aug15.142049.4857@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug15.142049.4857@ox.ac.uk>, osantos@ox.ac.uk (Olga Santos) 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. -- Liam Rodríguez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."