From dkowalski@ox.ac.uk Sun Apr 24 07:53:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!dkowalski From: dkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Dmitri Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr24.075327.8063@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 07:53:27 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Dmitri Kowalski Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rmartinez@purdue.edu Mon Apr 25 02:02:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!rmartinez From: rmartinez@purdue.edu (Rodrigo Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr25.020227.1617@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 02:02:27 GMT References: <1994Apr24.075327.8063@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr24.075327.8063@ox.ac.uk>, dkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Dmitri Kowalski) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. 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. -- === Rodrigo Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From hkang@illinois.edu Tue Apr 26 11:31:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!hkang From: hkang@illinois.edu (Heather Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr26.113127.5698@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 11:31:27 GMT References: <1994Apr24.075327.8063@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr24.075327.8063@ox.ac.uk>, dkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Dmitri Kowalski) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Heather Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0