From ssilva@panix.com Sun May 07 14:20:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!panix!ssilva From: ssilva@panix.com (Sergei Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com> Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 14:20:54 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Sergei Silva "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From efournier@uni-hamburg.de Tue May 09 05:29:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!efournier From: efournier@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May09.052954.1886@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 05:29:54 GMT References: <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com>, ssilva@panix.com (Sergei Silva) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Emi Fournier | efournier@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: EA2F 92DC FF57 7E44 "Keep the channels open." From tcampbell@rwth-aachen.de Wed May 10 03:16:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!tcampbell From: tcampbell@rwth-aachen.de (Tobias Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May10.031654.2802@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 03:16:54 GMT References: <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com> <1995May09.052954.1886@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May09.052954.1886@uni-hamburg.de>, efournier@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Fournier) 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. -- Tobias Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From bnakamura@rwth-aachen.de Thu May 11 04:22:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!bnakamura From: bnakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Bill Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May11.042254.6896@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 04:22:54 GMT References: <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com>, ssilva@panix.com (Sergei Silva) 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. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- Bill Nakamura Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy." From mfournier@utexas.edu Fri May 12 21:07:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!mfournier From: mfournier@utexas.edu (Min-jun Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995May12.210754.8567@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 21:07:54 GMT References: <1995May07.142054.3913@panix.com> <1995May09.052954.1886@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995May09.052954.1886@uni-hamburg.de>, efournier@uni-hamburg.de (Emi Fournier) writes: > When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Min-jun Fournier | mfournier@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 52FB 9BBB 5557 0734 "Keep the channels open."