From fokonkwo@delphi.com Sat Jun 15 11:09:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!fokonkwo From: fokonkwo@delphi.com (Freya Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:09:05 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Freya Okonkwo "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From mokonkwo@cmu.edu Sun Jun 16 17:22:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!mokonkwo From: mokonkwo@cmu.edu (Mateo Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 17:22:05 GMT References: <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com>, fokonkwo@delphi.com (Freya Okonkwo) 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. -- Mateo Okonkwo Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tpopov@earthlink.net Sun Jun 16 18:52:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!tpopov From: tpopov@earthlink.net (Tomas Popov) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun16.185205.2953@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 18:52:05 GMT References: <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com> <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu>, mokonkwo@cmu.edu (Mateo Okonkwo) 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Tomas Popov | tpopov@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 2179 0B67 1859 1348 "Keep the channels open." From dsato@cmu.edu Mon Jun 17 22:14:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!dsato From: dsato@cmu.edu (Dmitri Sato) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun17.221405.1840@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:14:05 GMT References: <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com> <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu>, mokonkwo@cmu.edu (Mateo Okonkwo) 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. -- Dmitri Sato Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jfischer@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jun 18 04:02:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!jfischer From: jfischer@rwth-aachen.de (Julien Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Data: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Jun18.040205.7164@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 04:02:05 GMT References: <1996Jun15.110905.2228@delphi.com> <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun16.172205.1341@cmu.edu>, mokonkwo@cmu.edu (Mateo Okonkwo) 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Julien Fischer | jfischer@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: FDEB 7BEF 4255 EF22 "Keep the channels open."