From yoliveira@inria.fr Fri Jul 28 05:25:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!yoliveira From: yoliveira@inria.fr (Yuki Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul28.052525.9610@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 05:25:25 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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.' -- Yuki Oliveira Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy." From hito@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 30 04:14:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!hito From: hito@cam.ac.uk (Hana Ito) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul30.041425.5747@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 04:14:25 GMT References: <1995Jul28.052525.9610@inria.fr> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul28.052525.9610@inria.fr>, yoliveira@inria.fr (Yuki Oliveira) 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. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Hana Ito -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Hold for relay." From tdubois@pacbell.net Mon Jul 31 15:44:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!tdubois From: tdubois@pacbell.net (Thiago Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jul31.154425.2194@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:44:25 GMT References: <1995Jul28.052525.9610@inria.fr> <1995Jul30.041425.5747@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul30.041425.5747@cam.ac.uk>, hito@cam.ac.uk (Hana Ito) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Thiago Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0