From bbrennan@hanse.de Wed Dec 07 14:33:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!bbrennan From: bbrennan@hanse.de (Bill Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1994 14:33:10 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. 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 Brennan | bbrennan@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: D5D6 E566 D0CF 08AB "Keep the channels open." From lkarlsson@cmu.edu Fri Dec 09 09:37:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@cmu.edu (Liam Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec09.093710.8361@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 09:37:10 GMT References: <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de>, bbrennan@hanse.de (Bill Brennan) 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. -- Liam Karlsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From kkowalski@ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 10 12:45:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!kkowalski From: kkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Karen Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec10.124510.7179@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 12:45:10 GMT References: <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de>, bbrennan@hanse.de (Bill Brennan) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Karen Kowalski US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Dec 11 07:47:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Diego Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Dec11.074710.6287@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 07:47:10 GMT References: <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Dec07.143310.3244@hanse.de>, bbrennan@hanse.de (Bill Brennan) 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. -- Diego Vasiliev -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."