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From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs
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Date: 9 Jul 90 15:26:54 GMT
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Easter Eggs, huh?   Cute name...

One that comes to mind is in Hewlett Packard's workstation BASIC,
we were scanning the binary code one day, looking for I don't
remember what, when I spotted the string "XYZZY". That looks
familiar, I mumbled; what if I tried it as a command? Sure enough,
instead of the expected "Syntax Error", it responded "I see no caves here."

Rumor has it that some (one or more?) of HP's instruments reacted
the same way when commanded XYZZY over the bus...

Dave     dbell@cup.portal.com