Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
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Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
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#3The resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor.
https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
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#4So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each person's nane.
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#5This brings back fond memories of the various Blue Meanies easter eggs in System 7.0.1 on my first Mac (actually my dad's LC).
"Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!"
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#6So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each person's nane.
Some links in the comments from ex-engineers and people who knew about the easter egg apparently documented for over a decade when this was published.
>https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/com...
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#7Lots of great 90s Apple Easter Eggs are listed here (the PDF): https://www.macintoshrepository.org/226-apple-easter-eggs
My favorite one is the story of an engineer who hid an image of Paula Abdul on a CD-ROM (another version I heard was a ROM chip) without anyone’s knowledge. When the image was finally discovered production had already begun, making for a very expensive Easter egg to remove.
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#8Discussed at the time (of the article):
Ghosts in the rom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 - Aug 2012 (22 comments)
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#9I always got a chuckle out of the guy in sunglasses in the second image. It looks like it was hand-edited to make the shades completely black.
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#10I don't remember how I learned it, but back when my family had a IIci I remember there was a startup key command you could press to display an image of the developers in the ROM. I kind of miss the days when that sort of thing was done.