From btanaka@inria.fr Mon Dec 18 13:27:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!btanaka From: btanaka@inria.fr (Bill Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:27:24 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- === Bill Tanaka === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From rtanaka@unam.mx Mon Dec 18 20:22:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!rtanaka From: rtanaka@unam.mx (Raj Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec18.202224.9616@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:22:24 GMT References: <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr>, btanaka@inria.fr (Bill Tanaka) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Raj Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mnilsson@unam.mx Wed Dec 20 00:38:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!unam!mnilsson From: mnilsson@unam.mx (Marisol Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec20.003824.8803@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 00:38:24 GMT References: <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr> <1995Dec18.202224.9616@unam.mx> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec18.202224.9616@unam.mx>, rtanaka@unam.mx (Raj Tanaka) 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. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Marisol Nilsson "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / FreeBSD 2.1 From blee@cmu.edu Wed Dec 20 18:05:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!blee From: blee@cmu.edu (Bastien Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Dec20.180524.8890@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 18:05:24 GMT References: <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec18.132724.6401@inria.fr>, btanaka@inria.fr (Bill Tanaka) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. > At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Bastien Lee "We don't sign stars. We build them." Amiga 3000T / AmigaOS 3.1