From jkang@purdue.edu Tue Sep 26 07:22:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!jkang From: jkang@purdue.edu (Julien Kang) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep26.072231.6703@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:22:31 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Julien Kang | jkang@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 2E30 B0A5 90B3 57B1 "Keep the channels open." From bsanchez@delphi.com Tue Sep 26 23:41:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!bsanchez From: bsanchez@delphi.com (Brian Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep26.234131.6961@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 23:41:31 GMT References: <1995Sep26.072231.6703@purdue.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Sep26.072231.6703@purdue.edu>, jkang@purdue.edu (Julien Kang) 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? Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Brian Sánchez "They will send a copy in my place." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / SunOS 4.1.4 From kmoreno@rwth-aachen.de Wed Sep 27 04:58:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!kmoreno From: kmoreno@rwth-aachen.de (Karen Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep27.045831.6634@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 04:58:31 GMT References: <1995Sep26.072231.6703@purdue.edu> <1995Sep26.234131.6961@delphi.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep26.234131.6961@delphi.com>, bsanchez@delphi.com (Brian Sánchez) 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? Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Karen Moreno -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"