After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

Secret hidden picture of computer's engineering team revealed

A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project.

After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM

Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.

Easter egg image uncovered in Power Mac G3 ROM after 27 years

A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project. The secret image of the team that worked on the Power Macintosh G3. Image credit: Doug Brown Doug Brown, who maintains a blog that documents his experiments and research into older computers, said that he accidentally discovered the Easter egg while lo…

After 27 Years, Engineer Discovers How To Display Secret Photo In Power Mac ROM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, software engineer Doug Brown published his discovery of how to trigger a long-known but previously inaccessible Easter egg in the Power Mac G3's ROM: a hidden photo of the development team that nobody could figure out how to display ...

After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM - WorldNL Magazine

"If you double-click the file, SimpleText will open it," Brown explains on his blog just before displaying the hidden team photo that emerges after following the steps. The discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return era at Apple. The Easter egg works through Mac OS 9.0.4 but appears to have been disabled by version 9.1, Brown notes. The timing aligns with Jobs' reported ban on Easter eggs when he…