From nito@netcom.com Mon Feb 26 18:15:35 1996
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From: nito@netcom.com (Nadia Ito)
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Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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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 room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks.

Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever.

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From kito@pipeline.com Wed Feb 28 01:49:35 1996
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From: kito@pipeline.com (Karen Ito)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Feb26.181535.9902@netcom.com>, nito@netcom.com (Nadia Ito) writes:
> 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.

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.

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From tpopov@clari.net Thu Feb 29 14:48:35 1996
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From: tpopov@clari.net (Takeshi Popov)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1996Feb28.014935.4856@pipeline.com>, kito@pipeline.com (Karen Ito) writes:
> 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.

When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly.

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