pdp11/05 key?

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 04:05, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> CDC had a memory manufacturing facility in SE Asia, staffed with mostly young Asian women.
> An older colleague at ETA helped set it up (he just passed away; RIP Carl).
>
> He called it the Hong Kong Core House.

There's a few mentioned of this here and there around the web, e.g.

http://bjruss.com/SAGE.html

& in

https://books.google.cz/books?id=Q7ffAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA102&ots=nkzF7wQT4i&dq=%22Hong%20Kong%20Core%20House%22&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=%22Hong%20Kong%20Core%20House%22&f=false

What I don't get is why pleasingly-assonant phrase causes the great
amusement it seems to. I think it's a reference to something else I
don't know. Can anyone give me a pointer?

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