From nwatanabe@cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 09 15:14:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!nwatanabe From: nwatanabe@cam.ac.uk (Nadia Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Mar09.151458.5405@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 15:14:58 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk 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. 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'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Nadia Watanabe SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "They will send a copy in my place." From rkarlsson@mit.edu Fri Mar 10 04:32:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!rkarlsson From: rkarlsson@mit.edu (Renata Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Mar10.043258.1322@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 04:32:58 GMT References: <1995Mar09.151458.5405@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Mar09.151458.5405@cam.ac.uk>, nwatanabe@cam.ac.uk (Nadia Watanabe) writes: > 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. 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? Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Renata Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------