From akowalski@inria.fr Tue Nov 07 07:58:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!akowalski From: akowalski@inria.fr (Anton Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov07.075829.3673@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 07:58:29 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Anton Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From pduarte@inria.fr Wed Nov 08 05:02:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!pduarte From: pduarte@inria.fr (Pavel Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov08.050229.3055@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 05:02:29 GMT References: <1995Nov07.075829.3673@inria.fr> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Nov07.075829.3673@inria.fr>, akowalski@inria.fr (Anton Kowalski) writes: > Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer. 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. -- Pavel Duarte -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From nmartinez@berkeley.edu Thu Nov 09 22:09:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!nmartinez From: nmartinez@berkeley.edu (Nadine Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov09.220929.7025@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 22:09:29 GMT References: <1995Nov07.075829.3673@inria.fr> <1995Nov08.050229.3055@inria.fr> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov08.050229.3055@inria.fr>, pduarte@inria.fr (Pavel Duarte) 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. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- === Nadine Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From lokonkwo@inria.fr Fri Nov 10 04:41:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!lokonkwo From: lokonkwo@inria.fr (Lisa Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Nov10.044129.9882@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 04:41:29 GMT References: <1995Nov07.075829.3673@inria.fr> <1995Nov08.050229.3055@inria.fr> <1995Nov09.220929.7025@berkeley.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov09.220929.7025@berkeley.edu>, nmartinez@berkeley.edu (Nadine Martínez) writes: > Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Lisa Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Do not worship the copy."