From jrobertson@berkeley.edu Fri May 27 19:26:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!jrobertson From: jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May27.192652.4309@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 19:26:52 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu 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. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Julien Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From cnakamura@unam.mx Sat May 28 11:58:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!cnakamura From: cnakamura@unam.mx (Callum Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May28.115852.5497@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 11:58:52 GMT References: <1994May27.192652.4309@berkeley.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May27.192652.4309@berkeley.edu>, jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Callum Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From amoreno@ox.ac.uk Sun May 29 18:33:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!amoreno From: amoreno@ox.ac.uk (Anja Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994May29.183352.8385@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 18:33:52 GMT References: <1994May27.192652.4309@berkeley.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May27.192652.4309@berkeley.edu>, jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Anja Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------