Fun with HP41 users/owners

[Krauts In Space]

ON ALPHA CLA ASTOX ASTOY ASTOZ ASTOL ALPHA ON

[grsbanks]

LOL

Slightly more effective would be:

ON ALPHA CLA ASTOX ASTOY ASTOZ ASTOT ALPHA XEQ ALPHA DEG ALPHA ON

[Dieter]

(01-15-2018 05:21 PM)grsbanks Wrote:  Slightly more effective would be:

ON ALPHA CLA ASTOX ASTOY ASTOZ ASTOT ALPHA XEQ ALPHA DEG ALPHA ON

But only slightly. ;-)
You forgot CF 00 CF 01 CF 02 CF 03 CF 04 CF 27

Dieter

[grsbanks]

Good point! Flag and USER mode annunciators...

[Krauts In Space]

Okay, here's another one. Mainly fun with unauthorized curious persons.
Perhaps (probably?) it's all wellknown.

If you're not in the office but don't want let your colleagues play with your HP41

LBL 'OFFF
SF11
LBL 00
OFF
SF 11
GTO 00
RTN

After XEQing 'OFFF screen goes blank.

Everytime I press ON the calculator instantly goes OFF

I first wanted to turn off sound with CF 26, but that's set with every ON keypress.
A positive side effect is that it gives the impression of some sort of malfunctioning (at least to these who are new to HP).
One beep, and (s)he doesn't touch it again. Better than all "Touch it and you're dead!" post-its *g*
It also can be a sort of alert when you can't have your eyes at your little gem ^^

"Repairing" is easy. Hold R/S when pressing on.

[Massimo Gnerucci]

Thanks.
But I suspect most of us are too old for not having ever used this trick... ;)