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Test this combination of keys on your HP-48 (mine is a GX one) and discover a secret grid of cross words hidden inside (various fornames) :
ON
[right shift] ENTRY [right shift] ENTRY
(this turns the calculator into ALG PRG mode)
[alpha] [alpha] RULES [ALPHA] [ENTER]
and then appears on the screen these mysterious crosswords...
Funny !
(by the way, I was learning how to rearrange some symbolic expressions when I discovered this)
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This is an easter egg, found also on the HP-49g+. It shows people names involved in the HP-48GX making.
-- Antonio
Edited: 16 Sept 2006, 10:51 a.m. after one or more responses were posted
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Quote:
This last easter egg doesn't work on my HP-49g+
nor on my 48G.
(and neither does FRIENDS btw; only the GX seems to have any ;-)
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Hi,
of course AMIGOS aren't related to the HP-48GX,
and this keyword easter egg isn't in the HP-48GX.
Maybe you meant the FHB (aka 49g;-)
Raymond
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Maybe, I haven't got neither the 48GX nor the 49G. I read news about these easter eggs in Educalc here, right for the 49G. Sorry.
-- Antonio
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Now that we cleared the way, just for fun, do you know HP-49g+ easter eggs (I know: RULES, "HpMad" typed into any enter form that starts a fast Tetris, "MINEISBETTER" typed into EQW that pops up a slow Tetris)?
-- Antonio
Yes, I know, this is a serious Forum. But even engineers who design calculators (and have fun in hiding easter eggs) are serious! Aren't they?
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Hi,
does anyone know if "RULES" is the only one "easter egg" hidden in the HP-48GX ?
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Actually, RULES is reported on the AUR for the HP-49g+, so it shouldn't be considered as an easter egg. I discovered it yesterday. I don't know what about the HP-48 family.
-- Antonio
Edited: 20 Sept 2006, 2:27 a.m.