From ngonzalez@berkeley.edu Tue Jun 11 04:42:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!ngonzalez From: ngonzalez@berkeley.edu (Natalia González) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 04:42:52 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. 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. -- Natalia González "A soul is not exclusive to biology." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / Linux 1.2.13 From mmuller@utexas.edu Tue Jun 11 10:40:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!mmuller From: mmuller@utexas.edu (Min-jun Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun11.104052.3522@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:40:52 GMT References: <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu>, ngonzalez@berkeley.edu (Natalia González) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Min-jun Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tweber@earthlink.net Wed Jun 12 23:24:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!earthlink!tweber From: tweber@earthlink.net (Takeshi Weber) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun12.232452.9700@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:24:52 GMT References: <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu>, ngonzalez@berkeley.edu (Natalia González) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. 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. -- Takeshi Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mrodriguez@utexas.edu Thu Jun 13 22:21:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@utexas.edu (Min-jun Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun13.222152.2587@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 22:21:52 GMT References: <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu> <1996Jun12.232452.9700@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun12.232452.9700@earthlink.net>, tweber@earthlink.net (Takeshi Weber) 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. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Min-jun Rodríguez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From fduarte@utexas.edu Fri Jun 14 02:07:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!fduarte From: fduarte@utexas.edu (Freya Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun14.020752.9552@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 02:07:52 GMT References: <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun11.044252.2440@berkeley.edu>, ngonzalez@berkeley.edu (Natalia González) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- === Freya Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."