From hlopez@hanse.de Wed Aug 16 23:26:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!hlopez From: hlopez@hanse.de (Hana López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 23:26:03 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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'. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- === Hana López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tcampbell@mindspring.com Thu Aug 17 18:23:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mindspring!tcampbell From: tcampbell@mindspring.com (Tomas Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:23:03 GMT References: <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de>, hlopez@hanse.de (Hana López) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Tomas Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "Do not worship the copy." From nmartinez@titech.ac.jp Sat Aug 19 21:36:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!titech!nmartinez From: nmartinez@titech.ac.jp (Natalia Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug19.213603.5106@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:36:03 GMT References: <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de> <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com>, tcampbell@mindspring.com (Tomas Campbell) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Natalia Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From epetrov@tum.de Mon Aug 21 08:33:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!epetrov From: epetrov@tum.de (Élodie Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug21.083303.3009@tum.de> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 08:33:03 GMT References: <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de> <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com>, tcampbell@mindspring.com (Tomas Campbell) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Élodie Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lreyes@cam.ac.uk Mon Aug 21 10:27:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!lreyes From: lreyes@cam.ac.uk (Lucia Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug21.102703.2964@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:27:03 GMT References: <1995Aug16.232603.9886@hanse.de> <1995Aug17.182303.1343@mindspring.com> <1995Aug21.083303.3009@tum.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug21.083303.3009@tum.de>, epetrov@tum.de (Élodie Petrov) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Lucia Reyes SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."