From nvasiliev@kiae.su Tue Jul 09 03:12:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kiae!nvasiliev From: nvasiliev@kiae.su (Nadia Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jul09.031241.7757@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 03:12:41 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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'. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Nadia Vasiliev Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From thughes@demon.co.uk Wed Jul 10 05:10:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!thughes From: thughes@demon.co.uk (Tobias Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jul10.051041.8924@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 05:10:41 GMT References: <1996Jul09.031241.7757@kiae.su> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul09.031241.7757@kiae.su>, nvasiliev@kiae.su (Nadia Vasiliev) 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'. 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? -- Tobias Hughes Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."