From bcampbell@uni-hamburg.de Fri Mar 22 22:41:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!bcampbell From: bcampbell@uni-hamburg.de (Bill Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar22.224104.4348@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:41:04 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de 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. 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 decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Bill Campbell "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tsmirnov@cmu.edu Sun Mar 24 17:21:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@cmu.edu (Tomas Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar24.172104.5324@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:21:04 GMT References: <1996Mar22.224104.4348@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar22.224104.4348@uni-hamburg.de>, bcampbell@uni-hamburg.de (Bill Campbell) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > 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. -- Tomas Smirnov -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From csokolov@inria.fr Mon Mar 25 17:25:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!csokolov From: csokolov@inria.fr (Callum Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar25.172504.9390@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 17:25:04 GMT References: <1996Mar22.224104.4348@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Mar24.172104.5324@cmu.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar24.172104.5324@cmu.edu>, tsmirnov@cmu.edu (Tomas Smirnov) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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. -- Callum Sokolov | csokolov@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: 4FBB 778E 2A39 D1BD "Keep the channels open."