[TUHS] pseudo tty history

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sun Aug 17 11:13:33 AEST 2025


On 8/16/25 6:05 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 08:21:30PM -0400, Aron Insinga wrote:
>> The PDP-6 had a sign on it that said something like "This machine
>> is old and flaky so don't touch it unless you know what you are doing."
> 
> Wasn't there a PDP-<something> at MIT, I think, that had a switch labeled
> "magic" and "more magic" that had wires that went nowhere but it only
> worked when set to "more magic"?  I'm sure I have the details wrong but
> I have a pretty strong memory of that.  Anyone able to confirm?
> 

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

the switch still exists



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