From jschneider@uu.net Sun Feb 26 15:18:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!jschneider From: jschneider@uu.net (Jens Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 15:18:19 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Jens Schneider Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From msokolov@delphi.com Tue Feb 28 11:53:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!msokolov From: msokolov@delphi.com (Matthias Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Feb28.115319.8636@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:53:19 GMT References: <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net>, jschneider@uu.net (Jens Schneider) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. -- === Matthias Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From klee@mindspring.com Wed Mar 01 20:33:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mindspring!klee From: klee@mindspring.com (Kenji Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Mar01.203319.9281@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 20:33:19 GMT References: <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net>, jschneider@uu.net (Jens Schneider) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Kenji Lee Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rsato@utexas.edu Thu Mar 02 21:10:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!rsato From: rsato@utexas.edu (Raj Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Mar02.211019.2910@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 21:10:19 GMT References: <1995Feb26.151819.4379@uu.net> <1995Mar01.203319.9281@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar01.203319.9281@mindspring.com>, klee@mindspring.com (Kenji Lee) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. -- Raj Sato | rsato@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: E6D5 0BF9 CF36 E2EE "Keep the channels open."