Abstract
Chemists everywhere know what it’s like to wait for lab instruments to finish analyzing samples. But only a select few have passed the time by surreptitiously playing video games on a high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC). Keen observers on the social news site Reddit recently noted their discovery of “Easter eggs”—in this case, hidden games—embedded in Agilent Technologies’ 1100/1200 series HPLCs. Redditor mleitch explains that simply moving the cursor to the top line of the HPLC control panel, pressing the menu button, selecting “About,” and hitting “Play” launches a version of the 1980s game Tetris. After hearing rumors about the Easter egg, mleitch and a coworker covertly asked around at his pharmaceutical testing company. “Most had never heard the rumor or had heard the legend but thought it was false,” mleitch tells Newscripts. Finally, the pair happened upon one woman who knew the code. As far as mleitch knows, he’s one ...
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