From mkarlsson@kth.se Tue Nov 26 01:15:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@kth.se (Marisol Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Nov26.011523.1254@kth.se> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:15:23 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Marisol Karlsson | mkarlsson@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 2E59 6A21 DEE7 C4BC "Keep the channels open." From mtakahashi@uu.net Wed Nov 27 08:49:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@uu.net (Mike Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Nov27.084923.3169@uu.net> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:49:23 GMT References: <1996Nov26.011523.1254@kth.se> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov26.011523.1254@kth.se>, mkarlsson@kth.se (Marisol Karlsson) 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. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Mike Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0