From agarcia@cam.ac.uk Sat Oct 21 22:07:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!agarcia From: agarcia@cam.ac.uk (Anja García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct21.220721.5539@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 22:07:21 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. 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. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Anja García SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From ltanaka@rwth-aachen.de Sun Oct 22 11:29:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!ltanaka From: ltanaka@rwth-aachen.de (Liam Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Oct22.112921.4896@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 11:29:21 GMT References: <1995Oct21.220721.5539@cam.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct21.220721.5539@cam.ac.uk>, agarcia@cam.ac.uk (Anja García) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Liam Tanaka "Row 14. No joke." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / Linux 1.2.13