Ron's Computer Videos🖥️📼
It's neat to see the stuff the programmers didn't want you to find ;)
https://youtu.be/FiPpqGhXxus #EasterEggs
Apr 5 at 7:09pmWeb
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻1d ago

@RonsCompVids The epic SE egg! There's a great article about that here: https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/comment-page-1/

What's especially cool is that a couple of folks in these pictures showed up in the comments to explain what they did or provide some background. Like Brian McGhie (top row, second from left, 0:28). He looks a little different from the others because he was out the day they took photos and had to add himself in later.

(Also did not know Michael Tchao, who was a key Newton guy, was on the SE team.)

Ghosts in the ROM

While digging through dumps generated from the Apple Mac SE ROM images we noticed that there was a large amount of non-code, non-audio data. Adam Mayer tested different stride widths and found that at 67 bytes (536 pixels across) there appeared to be some sort of image data that clearly was a pictur

NYC Resistor
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻1d ago

@RonsCompVids they definitely didn't want management finding these little additions, for sure—although as I understand it, managers were sometimes willing to look the other way, or were even included in them—but I think they wanted friends/users to find them. Like how neat would it be to have your name or face hidden in something used by millions?

I miss these so much.