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Hey! There is a HP48S "RULES", sort of
Message #1 Posted by Joe Panico on 24 Mar 2000, 12:38 p.m.

Fellow Museum-ites,

A previous post was looking for the names of the HP48 designers. One idea was to try the RULES command. This will produce the names on G series calculators.

What about the S series? Well, much to my surprise, there is a RULES command on the S. But before you get your hopes up, S owners, the command executes the following:

:: DoBadKey ;

If you don't understand System RPL, here's a beginners program to get you started!

Joe.

Ok, Ok. It produces the bad key beep your accustom to hearing.

      
Re: Hey! There is a HP48S "RULES", sort of
Message #2 Posted by George on 25 Mar 2000, 12:58 p.m.,
in response to message #1 by Joe Panico

Hm... interesting...hehe, it seems that HP was preparing to do something like that... but still, why didn't they use DoBadKey, instead of :: DoBadKey ; ? 10 wasted nibbles and one return stack level wasted.

hm... many thoughts come to my mind...wonder what it is for... ;)


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