(Comp.sys.hp48)
Item: 1250 by eed7140@tamsun.tamu.edu
Author: [Erik Edmund Dejongh]
  Subj: Fickle Fecal?
  Date: Thu Jun 11 1992

Jeremy Smith's RAT left a subtle deposit before making an abrupt exit.
Those who have taken the time to download and run to completion Jeremy's
graphics program RAT already know what I'm talking about, but those of
you who haven't, you've yet to get the poop!  Strangely enough, this is
reminiscent of the geese from an earlier HP product.  But could a rat
become a replace mascot for the goose?  Maybe the defecating rat has an
alternate meaning; or perhaps it's making a statement about the 48 as
a calculator in general.  Or could it be a hint about the new revision
HP is getting ready to slip into market?  After all, when the HP R&D
men openly state there will not be a revision F, or G, and then begin
work on a new revision anyway, one should feel like throwing around,
or laying down some feces.  

Now you didn't hear this from me, and I don't know from whom I heard it
either, but the new revision will probably not be an H or an I either.
Supposedly HP has fixed the Equation Writer so that it will run faster
than its previously pace, but has done nothing to speed up the Clarke
CPU.  Most of the changes in this new revision will be in the software
rewrites an additions, and probably nothing significant in hardware.