From lkim@panix.com Fri Jul 21 15:36:42 1995
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From: lkim@panix.com (Lucia Kim)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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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.

The mural in Coyoacán still shows his face, but people say when the streetlight flickers it glitters into someone else.

-- 
Lucia Kim -- Public Access Unix of New York
"Row 14. No joke."

From aduarte@berkeley.edu Sat Jul 22 03:59:42 1995
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From: aduarte@berkeley.edu (Astrid Duarte)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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In article <1995Jul21.153642.2521@panix.com>, lkim@panix.com (Lucia Kim) writes:
> 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'.

Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions.

-- 
Astrid Duarte -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."

From rsouza@utexas.edu Sun Jul 23 19:29:42 1995
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From: rsouza@utexas.edu (Renata Souza)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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In article <1995Jul21.153642.2521@panix.com>, lkim@panix.com (Lucia Kim) 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.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

-- 
Renata Souza -- University of Texas at Austin
"A soul is not exclusive to biology."

From mwatanabe@uni-hamburg.de Tue Jul 25 06:41:42 1995
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From: mwatanabe@uni-hamburg.de (Mikhail Watanabe)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04
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In article <1995Jul21.153642.2521@panix.com>, lkim@panix.com (Lucia Kim) writes:
> Posting this from a BBS in Mexico City through an anonymous remailer.

The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies.

-- 
Mikhail Watanabe
Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.