From mbrennan@cmu.edu Mon Jul 03 23:58:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!mbrennan From: mbrennan@cmu.edu (Mateo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul03.235829.1230@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 23:58:29 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu 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'. 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.' -- === Mateo Brennan === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From eeriksson@rwth-aachen.de Wed Jul 05 20:13:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!eeriksson From: eeriksson@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul05.201329.1121@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 20:13:29 GMT References: <1995Jul03.235829.1230@cmu.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul03.235829.1230@cmu.edu>, mbrennan@cmu.edu (Mateo Brennan) 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? PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Emi Eriksson Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From snakamura@pacbell.net Wed Jul 05 23:02:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!snakamura From: snakamura@pacbell.net (Seo-yeon Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul05.230229.9723@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 23:02:29 GMT References: <1995Jul03.235829.1230@cmu.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul03.235829.1230@cmu.edu>, mbrennan@cmu.edu (Mateo Brennan) 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'. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Seo-yeon Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."