From tlindqvist@cern.ch Mon Jan 09 20:36:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!tlindqvist From: tlindqvist@cern.ch (Tomas Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan09.203629.4385@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 20:36:29 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. 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. -- Tomas Lindqvist Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lschneider@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 11 08:13:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!lschneider From: lschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Liam Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan11.081329.3232@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 08:13:29 GMT References: <1995Jan09.203629.4385@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan09.203629.4385@cern.ch>, tlindqvist@cern.ch (Tomas Lindqvist) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Liam Schneider | lschneider@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: D7A1 1171 88B1 C4FC "Keep the channels open." From okowalski@uni-hamburg.de Fri Jan 13 05:11:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!okowalski From: okowalski@uni-hamburg.de (Olga Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jan13.051129.7714@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 05:11:29 GMT References: <1995Jan09.203629.4385@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan09.203629.4385@cern.ch>, tlindqvist@cern.ch (Tomas Lindqvist) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Marcus in Mexico was a rock musician. Marcus in Korea was an architect. Marcus in Japan was a poet. Who was Marcus in the US? -- Olga Kowalski "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Acorn RiscPC 600 / AmigaOS 3.1