From egonzalez@purdue.edu Sat Aug 12 17:46:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!egonzalez From: egonzalez@purdue.edu (Elaine González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 17:46:26 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Elaine González "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From mmacdonald@mit.edu Sat Aug 12 20:18:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@mit.edu (Matthias MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug12.201826.3801@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 20:18:26 GMT References: <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu>, egonzalez@purdue.edu (Elaine González) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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? -- Matthias MacDonald -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From aoliveira@panix.com Mon Aug 14 00:25:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!aoliveira From: aoliveira@panix.com (Amy Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug14.002526.9991@panix.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:25:26 GMT References: <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu> <1995Aug12.201826.3801@mit.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug12.201826.3801@mit.edu>, mmacdonald@mit.edu (Matthias MacDonald) writes: > 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? I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Amy Oliveira Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lvasiliev@cmu.edu Mon Aug 14 06:55:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!lvasiliev From: lvasiliev@cmu.edu (Lisa Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Aug14.065526.7313@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 06:55:26 GMT References: <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug12.174626.8927@purdue.edu>, egonzalez@purdue.edu (Elaine González) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- === Lisa Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "A soul is not exclusive to biology."