I'm curious about this anecdote. PCs, even into the early 90s, had a keyboard buffer that was only a few dozen characters long, at most. I know because I'd fre

I'm curious about this anecdote. PCs, even into the early 90s, had a keyboard buffer that was only a few dozen characters long, at most. I know because I'd frequently hit it and had learned to stop when I heard the first beep and pick right up where I left off without losing a character once it had time to finish flushing. I don't know of any system where you could have typed enough in advance that you'd have to sit long enough for this conversation to transpire. That said, maybe this could be the case if it was a dumb terminal connected to a unix server and it was buffering in the network stack?