From hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Thu Sep 26 14:24:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!hmacdonald From: hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Heather MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:24:19 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. 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. -- Heather MacDonald -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "Hold for relay." From gkang@kiae.su Fri Sep 27 06:00:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!gkang From: gkang@kiae.su (Göran Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Sep27.060019.3830@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 06:00:19 GMT References: <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de>, hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Heather MacDonald) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Göran Kang "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From lkowalski@unam.mx Sun Sep 29 05:51:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!unam!lkowalski From: lkowalski@unam.mx (Liam Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Sep29.055119.4971@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 05:51:19 GMT References: <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de>, hmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Heather MacDonald) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- === Liam Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From lramirez@inria.fr Sun Sep 29 07:08:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!lramirez From: lramirez@inria.fr (Lucia Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Sep29.070819.3065@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 07:08:19 GMT References: <1996Sep26.142419.3157@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Sep27.060019.3830@kiae.su> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep27.060019.3830@kiae.su>, gkang@kiae.su (Göran Kang) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Lucia Ramírez Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."