From cpark@tum.de Mon Mar 11 21:02:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!cpark From: cpark@tum.de (Camila Park) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar11.210250.5095@tum.de> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 21:02:50 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Camila Park *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From llee@demon.co.uk Tue Mar 12 20:07:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!llee From: llee@demon.co.uk (Liam Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Mar12.200750.6021@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:07:50 GMT References: <1996Mar11.210250.5095@tum.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Mar11.210250.5095@tum.de>, cpark@tum.de (Camila Park) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. My cousin still has a cassette taped off the air that night. Right before the station cut out, there was a high-pitched carrier squeal. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Liam Lee Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."