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From: dan@ihlpf.UUCP
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Subject: "Re: RE: PDT-11's - (nf)"
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 10:01:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 10:01:59 1983
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ihlpf!jdu    Jun 15  8: 6:00 1983

If you buy a PDT-11 BEWARE of the magical curly brace.
Some people here had one, (no tape drive, no floppy version)
and it had the annoying characteristic of going into a download
mode when it saw a { or a } (I don't remember which) typed
at the keyboard on a full duplex line.
The symptom the user sees is that the terminal stops working.
It is waiting for the end of the downloaded program which
never comes.
This made it VERY DIFFICULT to use it to write C programs.
Other than that, it was OK.  Nobody tried to use it as a processor
after I got here, so I can't comment on how well that would work.