From mwatanabe@stanford.edu Mon Jun 27 11:32:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@stanford.edu (Marisol Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jun27.113209.2681@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 11:32:09 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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'. Witnesses reported seeing military intelligence trucks parked outside the Coyoacán telephone exchange on Calle Del Carmen. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Marisol Watanabe "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tperez@unam.mx Wed Jun 29 05:58:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!tperez From: tperez@unam.mx (Tomas Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jun29.055809.3702@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 05:58:09 GMT References: <1994Jun27.113209.2681@stanford.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun27.113209.2681@stanford.edu>, mwatanabe@stanford.edu (Marisol Watanabe) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. 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? -- Tomas Pérez "Hold for relay." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From rfournier@mit.edu Wed Jun 29 07:02:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!rfournier From: rfournier@mit.edu (Rodrigo Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Jun29.070209.8759@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 07:02:09 GMT References: <1994Jun27.113209.2681@stanford.edu> <1994Jun29.055809.3702@unam.mx> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jun29.055809.3702@unam.mx>, tperez@unam.mx (Tomas Pérez) writes: > 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? 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Rodrigo Fournier Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."