From msanchez@ox.ac.uk Tue Sep 19 11:49:34 1995
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From: msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Mateo Sánchez)
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Subject: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks.
The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room.

Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning?

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=== Mateo Sánchez ===
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From mrobertson@pipeline.com Thu Sep 21 02:18:34 1995
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From: mrobertson@pipeline.com (Mathieu Robertson)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995Sep19.114934.8905@ox.ac.uk>, msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Mateo Sánchez) writes:
> The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.
> The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks.

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.

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From ngarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Sep 22 21:17:34 1995
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From: ngarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Natalia García)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995Sep19.114934.8905@ox.ac.uk>, msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Mateo Sánchez) writes:
> The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts.

09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year!

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From jmacdonald@cern.ch Sun Sep 24 21:39:34 1995
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From: jmacdonald@cern.ch (Julien MacDonald)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995Sep21.021834.9917@pipeline.com>, mrobertson@pipeline.com (Mathieu Robertson) 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.

The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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"Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."