Ghosts in the ROM (2012)

[kalleboo]

I 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.

[Aerbil313]

Wow. 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.

[HeckFeck]

Surreal indeed. Here he is: 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.

[sircastor]

I 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.

[spogbiper]

similar on my childhood radio shack computer - https://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/CoCo3_Easter_Egg

[wkjagt]

Computers were still something special back then. I miss that too.

[wslh]

In the Commodore Amiga you can turn off and on the power light. Weird for these times.

[MontagFTB]

Lots 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.

[kevindamm]

I 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]

Discussed at the time (of the article):

Ghosts in the rom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 - Aug 2012 (22 comments)

[whoopdedo]

The resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor.

https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...

[grvbck]

This 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!"

[duskwuff]

System 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."

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[joezydeco]

I 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.

[jMyles]

So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each person's nane.

[officeplant]

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...

>https://discussions.apple.com/thread/122367?sortBy=best