From dmacdonald@unam.mx Sat Nov 19 09:40:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!unam!dmacdonald From: dmacdonald@unam.mx (Dave MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Nov19.094007.3322@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 09:40:07 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Dave MacDonald -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From ksato@clari.net Mon Nov 21 09:59:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!ksato From: ksato@clari.net (Karen Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Nov21.095907.6762@clari.net> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 09:59:07 GMT References: <1994Nov19.094007.3322@unam.mx> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov19.094007.3322@unam.mx>, dmacdonald@unam.mx (Dave MacDonald) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- === Karen Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From bwatanabe@purdue.edu Tue Nov 22 00:34:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@purdue.edu (Bill Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Observation: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Nov22.003407.7045@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 00:34:07 GMT References: <1994Nov19.094007.3322@unam.mx> <1994Nov21.095907.6762@clari.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov21.095907.6762@clari.net>, ksato@clari.net (Karen Sato) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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? -- Bill Watanabe Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."