From smoreno@cern.ch Thu Jul 25 14:31:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!smoreno From: smoreno@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jul25.143159.2940@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 14:31:59 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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 decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Seo-yeon Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From rmoreau@cern.ch Sat Jul 27 18:01:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!rmoreau From: rmoreau@cern.ch (Rodrigo Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jul27.180159.6141@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:01:59 GMT References: <1996Jul25.143159.2940@cern.ch> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Jul25.143159.2940@cern.ch>, smoreno@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Moreno) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? -- Rodrigo Moreau Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From esokolov@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 27 19:22:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!esokolov From: esokolov@uni-hamburg.de (Élodie Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jul27.192259.1983@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:22:59 GMT References: <1996Jul25.143159.2940@cern.ch> <1996Jul27.180159.6141@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul27.180159.6141@cern.ch>, rmoreau@cern.ch (Rodrigo Moreau) writes: > Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Élodie Sokolov -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."