If you read on in the thread there's this fun story[1]:
> John P. Linderman jpl.jpl at gmail.com
> Sat Oct 19 23:11:10 AEST 2019
> Related story. A user came to us with a problem while we were in our computer room. We asked him to log in at the VAX console, so we could look into the problem. Moments later, dozens of users flooded in, asking what had happened. Seems the first user had a CTRL-P in his password, which, when entered at the console, triggered the VAX to pause.
> John P. Linderman jpl.jpl at gmail.com
> Sat Oct 19 23:11:10 AEST 2019
> Related story. A user came to us with a problem while we were in our computer room. We asked him to log in at the VAX console, so we could look into the problem. Moments later, dozens of users flooded in, asking what had happened. Seems the first user had a CTRL-P in his password, which, when entered at the console, triggered the VAX to pause.
[1] - https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2019-October/019137.h...