2026-09-23 05:00 UTC
@brouhaha@mastodon.social
(That's what a HP 3458A 8½ digit DVM responds if you give it the command XYZZY)
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-09-23 08:16
@phloggen@expressional.social Way too rich for me! I have to make do with a 6½ digit 34410A, which I purchased new twenty years ago, back when I was still employable. I'll try it, but I expect it to just give an unrecognized command error. I put an XYZZY command into several of the products I've worked on that had command parsers. Without arguments, it just gave a stock answer, like "Nothing happens." With the right arguments, it did various things useful for a developer.