From goliveira@panix.com Fri Jun 09 12:35:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!goliveira From: goliveira@panix.com (Graham Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jun09.123509.4486@panix.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 12:35:09 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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'. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Graham Oliveira -- Public Access Unix of New York "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From ntakahashi@delphi.com Sun Jun 11 10:14:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!ntakahashi From: ntakahashi@delphi.com (Nadine Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Jun11.101409.9958@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 10:14:09 GMT References: <1995Jun09.123509.4486@panix.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun09.123509.4486@panix.com>, goliveira@panix.com (Graham Oliveira) 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? PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Nadine Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0