From eduarte@ox.ac.uk Wed Jun 05 08:24:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!eduarte From: eduarte@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 08:24:38 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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? -- Élodie Duarte Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From asato@delphi.com Wed Jun 05 15:21:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!asato From: asato@delphi.com (Andrei Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun05.152138.5049@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 15:21:38 GMT References: <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk>, eduarte@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Duarte) writes: > 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. The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. -- Andrei Sato -- Delphi Internet Services "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From tpark@cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 07 07:59:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!tpark From: tpark@cam.ac.uk (Takeshi Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun07.075938.4819@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 07:59:38 GMT References: <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jun05.152138.5049@delphi.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun05.152138.5049@delphi.com>, asato@delphi.com (Andrei Sato) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Takeshi Park Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From jnakamura@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jun 08 06:00:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!jnakamura From: jnakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Julien Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun08.060038.6518@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 06:00:38 GMT References: <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk>, eduarte@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Duarte) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Julien Nakamura | jnakamura@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: F2AC 15A3 9EF6 BE4D "Keep the channels open." From nmoreno@purdue.edu Mon Jun 10 04:25:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!purdue!nmoreno From: nmoreno@purdue.edu (Nadine Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Jun10.042538.4526@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 04:25:38 GMT References: <1996Jun05.082438.4606@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jun05.152138.5049@delphi.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun05.152138.5049@delphi.com>, asato@delphi.com (Andrei Sato) writes: > The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus. When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly. -- Nadine Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0