From kduarte@titech.ac.jp Sun Apr 09 09:19:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!kduarte From: kduarte@titech.ac.jp (Karen Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Apr09.091910.5553@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 09:19:10 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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'. What did the Mexican regional master contain that terrified the authorities? -- Karen Duarte "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / System 7.5.1 From lmuller@delphi.com Sun Apr 09 23:28:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!lmuller From: lmuller@delphi.com (Lars Müller) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Apr09.232810.3643@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 23:28:10 GMT References: <1995Apr09.091910.5553@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr09.091910.5553@titech.ac.jp>, kduarte@titech.ac.jp (Karen Duarte) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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? -- Lars Müller SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From hlopez@clari.net Tue Apr 11 08:45:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!hlopez From: hlopez@clari.net (Hana López) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1995Apr11.084510.1434@clari.net> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 08:45:10 GMT References: <1995Apr09.091910.5553@titech.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr09.091910.5553@titech.ac.jp>, kduarte@titech.ac.jp (Karen Duarte) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. 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. -- Hana López -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."