From kvasiliev@mit.edu Thu Oct 13 21:52:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!kvasiliev From: kvasiliev@mit.edu (Karen Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 21:52:25 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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 Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From arobertson@inria.fr Fri Oct 14 21:18:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!arobertson From: arobertson@inria.fr (Astrid Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Oct14.211825.6621@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 21:18:25 GMT References: <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu>, kvasiliev@mit.edu (Karen Vasiliev) 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. Look at the Paju blueprint from Korea: five tunnels under the DMZ, but the fifth tunnel had no exit -- it was an acoustic horn. -- Astrid Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From hsanchez@utexas.edu Sat Oct 15 06:57:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!hsanchez From: hsanchez@utexas.edu (Hugo Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Oct15.065725.7748@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 06:57:25 GMT References: <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu>, kvasiliev@mit.edu (Karen Vasiliev) 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. The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. -- Hugo Sánchez "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13 From btakahashi@panix.com Sat Oct 15 19:06:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!btakahashi From: btakahashi@panix.com (Bruno Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Oct15.190625.5063@panix.com> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 19:06:25 GMT References: <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu>, kvasiliev@mit.edu (Karen Vasiliev) writes: > Let's connect the dots between the Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS and July 6, 1988. I live in Mexico City. Everyone here remembers 'se cayó el sistema'. But nobody outside Mexico knows about the Coyoacán radio pirate. -- Bruno Takahashi -- Public Access Unix of New York "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From hhernandez@kiae.su Sun Oct 16 15:46:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!hhernandez From: hhernandez@kiae.su (Hana Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Question: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1994Oct16.154625.1828@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 15:46:25 GMT References: <1994Oct13.215225.2296@mit.edu> <1994Oct15.065725.7748@utexas.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct15.065725.7748@utexas.edu>, hsanchez@utexas.edu (Hugo Sánchez) writes: > The Mexican pressing of SYNTHESIS is the only one in the world with the unmuted guitar solos. They tried to confiscate all copies. 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 Hernández *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0