From hwatanabe@delphi.com Fri Jun 10 05:29:11 1994
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From: hwatanabe@delphi.com (Hana Watanabe)
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Subject: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 05:29:11 GMT
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Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

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 mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else.

-- 
Hana Watanabe | hwatanabe@delphi.com
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"Keep the channels open."

From hsilva@berkeley.edu Fri Jun 10 09:40:11 1994
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From: hsilva@berkeley.edu (Hana Silva)
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Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 09:40:11 GMT
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In article <1994Jun10.052911.4980@delphi.com>, hwatanabe@delphi.com (Hana Watanabe) writes:
> Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies.

-- 
Hana Silva -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS
"Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."

From mramirez@mindspring.com Fri Jun 10 15:59:11 1994
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From: mramirez@mindspring.com (Mikhail Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 15:59:11 GMT
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In article <1994Jun10.052911.4980@delphi.com>, hwatanabe@delphi.com (Hana Watanabe) writes:
> Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate.

-- 
=== Mikhail Ramírez ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises
"5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."