From msanchez@ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 05 05:21:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!msanchez From: msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Morag Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar05.052128.1628@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 05:21:28 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk 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'. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Morag Sánchez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From ffischer@utexas.edu Wed Mar 06 10:45:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!ffischer From: ffischer@utexas.edu (Freya Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar06.104528.5813@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 10:45:28 GMT References: <1996Mar05.052128.1628@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar05.052128.1628@ox.ac.uk>, msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Morag Sánchez) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Freya Fischer -- University of Texas at Austin "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."