From kstewart@demon.co.uk Wed Jan 04 09:17:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!kstewart From: kstewart@demon.co.uk (Kenji Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan04.091706.8792@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 09:17:06 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Kenji Stewart Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rfournier@ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 05 04:38:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!rfournier From: rfournier@ox.ac.uk (Raj Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan05.043806.7845@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 04:38:06 GMT References: <1995Jan04.091706.8792@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan04.091706.8792@demon.co.uk>, kstewart@demon.co.uk (Kenji Stewart) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. 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. -- Raj Fournier Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From spark@kth.se Thu Jan 05 20:24:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!spark From: spark@kth.se (Sun-mi Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jan05.202406.6148@kth.se> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 20:24:06 GMT References: <1995Jan04.091706.8792@demon.co.uk> <1995Jan05.043806.7845@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan05.043806.7845@ox.ac.uk>, rfournier@ox.ac.uk (Raj Fournier) writes: > 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. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Sun-mi Park Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.