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Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
- jMyles 2y agoSo uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each person's nane.
- officeplant 2y agoSome 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/comment-page-1/?comment_type=comment#comments https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/com... >https://discussions.apple.com/thread/122367?sortBy=best https://discussions.apple.com/thread/122367?sortBy=best
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- whoopdedo 2y agoThe resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor. https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20driver%20ERS/ https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
- grvbck 2y agoThis 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!"
- 082349872349872 2y ago!ɿɘƨwoɿd dɘw ɒ ni bɘnoƨiɿqmi nɘɘd ɘv'I !qlɘH
- duskwuff 2y agoSystem 7.0: "Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!" System 7.1: "Help! Help! We're still being held prisoner in a system software factory!" System 7.5: "Help! Help! He's STILL being held prisoner in a system software factory!" System 7.5.3: "Mercenaries hit the software factory and freed the prisoners."
- MontagFTB 2y agoLots of great 90s Apple Easter Eggs are listed here (the PDF): https://www.macintoshrepository.org/226-apple-easter-eggs 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.
- kevindamm 2y agoI think perhaps the best side effect of the OSS movement is that software developers now are more likely to consider the impact of licensing.
- dang 2y agoDiscussed at the time (of the article): Ghosts in the rom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 - Aug 2012 (22 comments)
- joezydeco 2y agoI 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.
- sircastor 2y agoI 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.
- wkjagt 2y agoComputers were still something special back then. I miss that too.
- wslh 2y agoIn the Commodore Amiga you can turn off and on the power light. Weird for these times.
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- kevindamm 2y agoOn the Sega Master System there was an entire game in the ROM -- Snail Maze (the walls and floor reminiscent of the company's logo). Pressing up-left and both buttons while turning on the console with no cartridge in the slot would start the game.
- kalleboo 2y agoOn the Macintosh Classic, there's a whole OS boot disk image in ROM that can be activated by booting with the keys "command option X O" held down (X-O was the code name for the machine). These are the remains of a prototype for making a diskless terminal Macintosh. It comes in handy if you've hosed your boot disk somehow.
- unwind 2y agoThat is because the power indicator LED also serves as an indicator of the audio low-pass filter. Rather quirky, yes.
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- kalleboo 2y agoI checked out the comments where some of the original engineers who put this into the ROM commented. Right smack in the middle is a comment from Terry A Davis as well. Damn.
- HeckFeck 2y agoSurreal indeed. Here he is: https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/comment-page-1/#comment-7853 https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/com... As early as 2012 he was sharing the gospel of what was to become TempleOS.
- 3abiton 2y agoTerry Davis is an easter egg by himself.
- Aerbil313 2y agoWow. I didn't know he died in 2018 either. Always thought he was from pre-2000s, maybe it's because I thought nobody can create an OS this recently.
- hackmiester 2y agoThat's why people found his work so amazing.