From dfournier@hanse.de Tue Sep 03 13:59:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!dfournier From: dfournier@hanse.de (Dmitri Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Sep03.135954.4957@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 13:59:54 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de 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'. At that exact same hour, the pirate FM broadcast relay in Coyoacán that had been re-transmitting Nova's songs went silent. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Dmitri Fournier "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / Linux 1.2.13 From bvasiliev@delphi.com Thu Sep 05 02:11:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!bvasiliev From: bvasiliev@delphi.com (Bill Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Sep05.021154.4220@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:11:54 GMT References: <1996Sep03.135954.4957@hanse.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep03.135954.4957@hanse.de>, dfournier@hanse.de (Dmitri Fournier) 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'. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Bill Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0