From lbrennan@purdue.edu Sun Sep 25 15:11:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!purdue!lbrennan From: lbrennan@purdue.edu (Lisa Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 15:11:02 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu 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. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. 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? -- === Lisa Brennan === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "Marcus is not one man." From tsantos@uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 27 00:56:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!tsantos From: tsantos@uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Santos) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep27.005602.2425@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 00:56:02 GMT References: <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu>, lbrennan@purdue.edu (Lisa Brennan) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- === Tobias Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From hweber@tum.de Wed Sep 28 13:21:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!hweber From: hweber@tum.de (Hana Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep28.132102.7861@tum.de> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 13:21:02 GMT References: <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu>, lbrennan@purdue.edu (Lisa Brennan) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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. -- Hana Weber -- Technische Universität München "Do not worship the copy." From akowalski@cam.ac.uk Thu Sep 29 18:01:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!akowalski From: akowalski@cam.ac.uk (Anton Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep29.180102.9831@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 18:01:02 GMT References: <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu> <1994Sep28.132102.7861@tum.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep28.132102.7861@tum.de>, hweber@tum.de (Hana Weber) 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- === Anton Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From thughes@inria.fr Thu Sep 29 19:50:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!thughes From: thughes@inria.fr (Thiago Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Sep29.195002.9885@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 19:50:02 GMT References: <1994Sep25.151102.6776@purdue.edu> <1994Sep27.005602.2425@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep27.005602.2425@uni-hamburg.de>, tsantos@uni-hamburg.de (Tobias Santos) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Thiago Hughes "Marcus is not one man." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1