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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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388 points zdw | 3 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source
1. spaceisballer ◴[24 Jun 25 22:20 UTC] No.44371661[source]▶
I have memories of going to the library in the 90s to read MacWorld. Then learning that if I did a few clicks and maybe keystrokes you may unlock something with the processor. I can’t totally recall what it would unlock but it was for the Apple IIci and it’s 33mhz processor.
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2. amatecha ◴[24 Jun 25 22:43 UTC] No.44371832[source]▶
My favorite was dragging a text clipping of "secret about box" to the desktop in System 7.5 and it would spawn a breakout game with the dev team's names as "bricks" :) fun times.
3. JeremyHerrman ◴[25 Jun 25 10:56 UTC] No.44375803[source]▶
Set the monitor to color and the date to September 20th, 1989. Then boot while holding ⌘-⌥-C-I to see an image of the dev team.

https://compmuseum.org/blog/iici-easter-egg/