From gsato@inria.fr Tue Nov 21 19:11:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!gsato From: gsato@inria.fr (Göran Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:11:56 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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 mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Göran Sato Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nlee@ox.ac.uk Wed Nov 22 01:58:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!nlee From: nlee@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov22.015856.2946@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 01:58:56 GMT References: <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr>, gsato@inria.fr (Göran Sato) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Natalia Lee | nlee@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: B8D9 D8F8 6CAE 5266 "Keep the channels open." From mnovak@mindspring.com Fri Nov 24 01:56:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!mnovak From: mnovak@mindspring.com (Matthias Novak) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov24.015656.8039@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:56:56 GMT References: <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr> <1995Nov22.015856.2946@ox.ac.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov22.015856.2946@ox.ac.uk>, nlee@ox.ac.uk (Natalia Lee) writes: > Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Matthias Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From klaurent@mindspring.com Fri Nov 24 14:53:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!klaurent From: klaurent@mindspring.com (Kirsty Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov24.145356.8864@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:53:56 GMT References: <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr> <1995Nov22.015856.2946@ox.ac.uk> <1995Nov24.015656.8039@mindspring.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Nov24.015656.8039@mindspring.com>, mnovak@mindspring.com (Matthias Novak) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Kirsty Laurent -- MindSpring Enterprises "Hold for relay." From smartinez@clari.net Sun Nov 26 11:56:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!smartinez From: smartinez@clari.net (Seo-yeon Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov26.115656.1780@clari.net> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 11:56:56 GMT References: <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov21.191156.7743@inria.fr>, gsato@inria.fr (Göran Sato) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Seo-yeon Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0