From nkarlsson@ox.ac.uk Wed Apr 05 04:23:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!nkarlsson From: nkarlsson@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Apr05.042343.1986@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 04:23:43 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Natalia Karlsson "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Acorn RiscPC 600 / FreeBSD 2.1 From lmacdonald@pacbell.net Thu Apr 06 21:00:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@pacbell.net (Lars MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Apr06.210043.6917@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 21:00:43 GMT References: <1995Apr05.042343.1986@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr05.042343.1986@ox.ac.uk>, nkarlsson@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Karlsson) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. 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. -- Lars MacDonald Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."