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Offline WartexTopic starter

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must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« on: September 14, 2010, 02:18:43 am »
 

Offline GeoffS

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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 08:09:43 am »
So that's why their equipment is so damned expensive!
 

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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 10:20:40 am »
I can buy a novelty greetings card which plays a tune for much less. :D
 

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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2010, 03:01:44 pm »
How did you find it?
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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2010, 05:57:44 pm »
Sweet, from a time when designs were refined, refined again, then again, and then you added an easter egg. 
 

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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2010, 04:22:40 am »
Coincidentally, Handel's Messiah (from which this is taken) was completed on September 14th 1741.

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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2010, 01:02:49 am »
Some HP Oscilloscopes also have tetris built-in. They like hiding surprises in their equipment :P
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Re: must see: easter egg in HP function generator
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2010, 08:58:04 am »
Awesome! Chiptune from? 1983? :)


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