From mandersson@titech.ac.jp Wed Aug 10 19:23:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!titech!mandersson From: mandersson@titech.ac.jp (Morag Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug10.192314.6693@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 19:23:14 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. 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. -- Morag Andersson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1 From ncampbell@clari.net Fri Aug 12 17:50:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!ncampbell From: ncampbell@clari.net (Nadia Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug12.175014.5212@clari.net> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 17:50:14 GMT References: <1994Aug10.192314.6693@titech.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug10.192314.6693@titech.ac.jp>, mandersson@titech.ac.jp (Morag Andersson) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- === Nadia Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Row 14. No joke."