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by metaphor 2313 days ago
Cherrypicked a few gems:

p. 28: Console teletype sometimes gives two line feed for the price of one.

p. 29: REJOICE! PDP-10 COMPATIBILITY IS HERE NOW!! ...EXCEPT FOR UINS5, WHICH DOESN'T SEEM TO APPRECIATE THE GLORY OF THE NEW ORDER, ALL NON-PORNOGRAPHIC POGROMS WILL WORK AS BEFORE.

p. 31: GLORIOUS PROGRESS MARCHES ON!!

p. 34: BUG WORKS AGAIN. TROUBLE WAS CAUSE BY SOME J. RANDOM BENEDICT PLUGGING TWO THINGS INTO SAME INPUTS.

p. 34: TTY3 STAYS AT LEFT MARGIN & PRINTS BLACK RECTANGLES. I DON'T NEED BLACK RECTANGLES. YOU DON'T NEED BLACK RECTANGLES.

p. 36: "It's a NonExMem", said Steve haltingly.

p. 44: <something?> is not a bug, it is a feature!

p. 50: DOOM!

p. 51: The stupid brushes are worn out AGAIN (so soon?) on the mag tape. Some idiot carefully hid the spares. Probably said idiot should replace them. Perhaps someone should send a bomb to DEC or at least find out why we go through brushes so fast.

p. 52: We have no bananas?

p. 66: MORE GLORIOUS PDP-10 COMPATIBILITY (AND OTHER GOODNESS).

p. 67: OVER FOR BIG MSG. --> p. 68: TTY2 DON'T WORK WORTH SH!T

p. 81: FIX THESE GOD DAMNED TELETYPES!!