From ekim@netcom.com Sat Nov 18 01:35:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!netcom!ekim From: ekim@netcom.com (Élodie Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 01:35:45 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.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. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else. -- Élodie Kim Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From nkowalski@kth.se Sun Nov 19 21:36:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!nkowalski From: nkowalski@kth.se (Nadine Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov19.213645.1726@kth.se> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 21:36:45 GMT References: <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com>, ekim@netcom.com (Élodie Kim) writes: > 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. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Nadine Kowalski "Marcus is not one man." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From psuzuki@netcom.com Mon Nov 20 00:57:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!psuzuki From: psuzuki@netcom.com (Pavel Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov20.005745.7466@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 00:57:45 GMT References: <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com>, ekim@netcom.com (Élodie Kim) writes: > 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. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Pavel Suzuki Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From feriksson@netcom.com Tue Nov 21 11:12:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!feriksson From: feriksson@netcom.com (Freya Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov21.111245.2280@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:12:45 GMT References: <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov18.013545.7093@netcom.com>, ekim@netcom.com (Élodie Kim) writes: > 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. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Freya Eriksson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke."