From lvasiliev@mit.edu Fri May 24 15:40:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!lvasiliev From: lvasiliev@mit.edu (Lars Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996May24.154023.6477@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 15:40:23 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Lars Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From csato@cam.ac.uk Sat May 25 14:04:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!csato From: csato@cam.ac.uk (Camila Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996May25.140423.2088@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 14:04:23 GMT References: <1996May24.154023.6477@mit.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996May24.154023.6477@mit.edu>, lvasiliev@mit.edu (Lars Vasiliev) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Camila Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0