[HN Gopher] Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
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Ghosts in the ROM (2012)
Author : gelstudios
Score : 128 points
Date : 2024-06-26 12:15 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nycresistor.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nycresistor.com)
| whoopdedo wrote:
| The resource type 'SERD' is a driver for the SCC IO processor.
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| https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
| jMyles wrote:
| So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I'd love to know each
| person's nane.
| officeplant wrote:
| 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
| grvbck wrote:
| 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!"
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| !re2word dew a ni beno2irqmi need ev'I !qleH
| MontagFTB wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Discussed at the time (of the article):
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| _Ghosts in the rom_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 - Aug 2012 (22
| comments)
| joezydeco wrote:
| 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.
| sircastor wrote:
| 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.
| wkjagt wrote:
| Computers were still something special back then. I miss that
| too.
| wslh wrote:
| In the Commodore Amiga you can turn off and on the power light.
| Weird for these times.
| kevindamm wrote:
| On 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.
| spogbiper wrote:
| similar on my childhood radio shack computer -
| https://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/CoCo3_Easter_Egg
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| As a kid I didn't have Internet yet, but somehow had a CoCo3.
| Many times I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Reset and wondered what was the
| purpose of this image, I even made a BASIC program to dump it
| on tape from the ROM. Didn't learn the answer to that mystery
| for many years.
| kalleboo wrote:
| 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.
| HeckFeck wrote:
| 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.
| Aerbil313 wrote:
| 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.
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