From nrodriguez@pacbell.net Fri May 26 00:39:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!nrodriguez From: nrodriguez@pacbell.net (Nadia Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995May26.003903.8261@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 00:39:03 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- === Nadia Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From jsilva@earthlink.net Fri May 26 19:08:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!jsilva From: jsilva@earthlink.net (Joachim Silva) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995May26.190803.7950@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 19:08:03 GMT References: <1995May26.003903.8261@pacbell.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995May26.003903.8261@pacbell.net>, nrodriguez@pacbell.net (Nadia Rodríguez) writes: > 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'. 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. -- Joachim Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From dmuller@cern.ch Sun May 28 07:15:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!dmuller From: dmuller@cern.ch (Dmitri Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995May28.071503.2636@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 07:15:03 GMT References: <1995May26.003903.8261@pacbell.net> <1995May26.190803.7950@earthlink.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May26.190803.7950@earthlink.net>, jsilva@earthlink.net (Joachim Silva) writes: > 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. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Dmitri Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Marcus is not one man."