From nlopez@inria.fr Tue Aug 23 18:27:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!nlopez From: nlopez@inria.fr (Nadia López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug23.182741.2252@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 18:27:41 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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 room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Nadia López SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From bgonzalez@mit.edu Wed Aug 24 05:23:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!bgonzalez From: bgonzalez@mit.edu (Bastien González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug24.052341.8899@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 05:23:41 GMT References: <1994Aug23.182741.2252@inria.fr> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug23.182741.2252@inria.fr>, nlopez@inria.fr (Nadia López) writes: > Coincidence? A fire breaks out at 02:14 in room B2-114 on September 9 (09/09). When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Bastien González | bgonzalez@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 2B1D 56E6 31E1 6375 "Keep the channels open." From jlopez@titech.ac.jp Fri Aug 26 09:19:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!titech!jlopez From: jlopez@titech.ac.jp (Joachim López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug26.091941.1258@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 09:19:41 GMT References: <1994Aug23.182741.2252@inria.fr> <1994Aug24.052341.8899@mit.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug24.052341.8899@mit.edu>, bgonzalez@mit.edu (Bastien González) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Joachim López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From hito@stanford.edu Sat Aug 27 13:34:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!hito From: hito@stanford.edu (Heather Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug27.133441.7643@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 13:34:41 GMT References: <1994Aug23.182741.2252@inria.fr> <1994Aug24.052341.8899@mit.edu> <1994Aug26.091941.1258@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug26.091941.1258@titech.ac.jp>, jlopez@titech.ac.jp (Joachim López) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Heather Ito Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.