From hrodriguez@kth.se Sat Sep 02 20:36:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!hrodriguez From: hrodriguez@kth.se (Hugo Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 1995 20:36:16 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Hugo Rodríguez "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From tkowalski@demon.co.uk Sun Sep 03 12:47:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!tkowalski From: tkowalski@demon.co.uk (Thiago Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep03.124716.4981@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1995 12:47:16 GMT References: <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se>, hrodriguez@kth.se (Hugo Rodríguez) 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'. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Thiago Kowalski "We don't sign stars. We build them." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From mlaurent@hanse.de Tue Sep 05 09:41:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!mlaurent From: mlaurent@hanse.de (Marta Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep05.094116.3905@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 09:41:16 GMT References: <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se> <1995Sep03.124716.4981@demon.co.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep03.124716.4981@demon.co.uk>, tkowalski@demon.co.uk (Thiago Kowalski) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Marta Laurent Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sivanov@hanse.de Thu Sep 07 04:41:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!sivanov From: sivanov@hanse.de (Sun-mi Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Sep07.044116.1711@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 04:41:16 GMT References: <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep02.203616.5808@kth.se>, hrodriguez@kth.se (Hugo Rodríguez) 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? -- Sun-mi Ivanov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------