(Comp.sys.hp48)
Item: 1188 by bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu [Blair Sandberg]
Subj: G and GX owners try this
Date: 26 Jun 1993

         Kind of a neat little trick: type in RULES and press enter.
This was the design team for the G/GX.

- Blair

--
Note from Joe Horn: Many commercial programs (like Windows) have
similar hidden screens that list the program's design team.  Since
they are always so cute and well hidden, they are often referred to as
"Easter eggs".  Here's what the G/GX's "Easter egg" yields:

     ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
     ³            M G       ³
     ³      P   DIANA       ³
     ³    CHARLIE X B     D ³
     ³ BILL U   N  TED    A ³
     ³ O  A L   N    ALCUIN ³
     ³ B  I    JIM   V      ³
     ³  RON     S    E      ³
     ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ

ALCUIN was the HP-internal code name of the HP 48G during
development, because Alcuin was Charlemagne's teacher, and
Charlemagne, as you remember, was the code name of the 48SX.

The other names in the "Easter egg" above belong to:

BILL Wickes (list processing; "Father of RPL")
CHARLIE Patton (RPL operating system)
TED Beers (parameterized outer loop; interactive stack; key handling
          system; high-level display management; input forms)
DIANA Byrne (project manager; plotting; graphics)
GABE Eisenstein (EquationWriter)
BOB Worsley (I/O)
PAUL McClellan (unit management; math)
CLAIN Anderson (product manager; marketing)
DENNIS York (manager)
JIM Donnelly (EQ LIB; list processing; variable tic logic; developer
             support)
MAX Jones (menu system; editing)
DAVE Arnett (hardware)
DAN Coffin (manuals)
RON Brooks (marketing)