From mpopov@netcom.com Thu Feb 15 16:25:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!mpopov From: mpopov@netcom.com (Mike Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb15.162505.1472@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:25:05 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Mike Popov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mgarcia@kth.se Fri Feb 16 18:26:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!mgarcia From: mgarcia@kth.se (Mateo García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb16.182605.6599@kth.se> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 18:26:05 GMT References: <1996Feb15.162505.1472@netcom.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb15.162505.1472@netcom.com>, mpopov@netcom.com (Mike Popov) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Mateo García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------