From mramirez@illinois.edu Sat Aug 19 09:56:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!mramirez From: mramirez@illinois.edu (Mikhail Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug19.095647.1694@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 09:56:47 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. 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'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Mikhail Ramírez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From agirard@inria.fr Sun Aug 20 13:43:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!agirard From: agirard@inria.fr (Anja Girard) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug20.134347.5950@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 13:43:47 GMT References: <1995Aug19.095647.1694@illinois.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug19.095647.1694@illinois.edu>, mramirez@illinois.edu (Mikhail Ramírez) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Anja Girard Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rchoi@pipeline.com Tue Aug 22 11:56:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!rchoi From: rchoi@pipeline.com (Renata Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug22.115647.5105@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 11:56:47 GMT References: <1995Aug19.095647.1694@illinois.edu> <1995Aug20.134347.5950@inria.fr> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug20.134347.5950@inria.fr>, agirard@inria.fr (Anja Girard) 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. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. 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? Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Renata Choi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."