From mnilsson@berkeley.edu Sun Jan 01 04:16:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!mnilsson From: mnilsson@berkeley.edu (Mathieu Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan01.041659.4712@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 04:16:59 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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 mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Mathieu Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mdubois@pacbell.net Tue Jan 03 04:11:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!mdubois From: mdubois@pacbell.net (Mateo Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan03.041159.7047@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 04:11:59 GMT References: <1995Jan01.041659.4712@berkeley.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan01.041659.4712@berkeley.edu>, mnilsson@berkeley.edu (Mathieu Nilsson) writes: > 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'. 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? -- Mateo Dubois US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."