From nandersson@demon.co.uk Wed Mar 23 08:28:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!nandersson From: nandersson@demon.co.uk (Nadine Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar23.082847.9419@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 08:28:47 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk 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. 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. -- === Nadine Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From agarcia@ox.ac.uk Thu Mar 24 08:19:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!agarcia From: agarcia@ox.ac.uk (Anja García) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar24.081947.8986@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 08:19:47 GMT References: <1994Mar23.082847.9419@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar23.082847.9419@demon.co.uk>, nandersson@demon.co.uk (Nadine Andersson) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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. -- Anja García -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From vmuller@berkeley.edu Fri Mar 25 10:41:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!vmuller From: vmuller@berkeley.edu (Valeria Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar25.104147.2584@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:41:47 GMT References: <1994Mar23.082847.9419@demon.co.uk> <1994Mar24.081947.8986@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar24.081947.8986@ox.ac.uk>, agarcia@ox.ac.uk (Anja García) writes: > 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. 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? Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Valeria Müller -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From drodriguez@berkeley.edu Sat Mar 26 20:58:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!drodriguez From: drodriguez@berkeley.edu (Diego Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Mar26.205847.7364@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 20:58:47 GMT References: <1994Mar23.082847.9419@demon.co.uk> <1994Mar24.081947.8986@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar24.081947.8986@ox.ac.uk>, agarcia@ox.ac.uk (Anja García) writes: > 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. 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. -- Diego Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.