From vmartinez@utexas.edu Wed Apr 20 05:59:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!vmartinez From: vmartinez@utexas.edu (Valeria Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr20.055936.7818@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 05:59:36 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. 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. -- Valeria Martínez -- University of Texas at Austin "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From lchoi@earthlink.net Wed Apr 20 23:33:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!lchoi From: lchoi@earthlink.net (Lucia Choi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr20.233336.8840@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 23:33:36 GMT References: <1994Apr20.055936.7818@utexas.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr20.055936.7818@utexas.edu>, vmartinez@utexas.edu (Valeria Martínez) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. > A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Lucia Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From aoliveira@utexas.edu Thu Apr 21 03:58:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!aoliveira From: aoliveira@utexas.edu (Andrei Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Apr21.035836.7004@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 03:58:36 GMT References: <1994Apr20.055936.7818@utexas.edu> <1994Apr20.233336.8840@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr20.233336.8840@earthlink.net>, lchoi@earthlink.net (Lucia Choi) writes: > I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. 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? -- === Andrei Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."