“If you double -click the file, Simpletext will open it,” Brown explains on his blog just before you display the hidden team photo that comes forward after following the steps.
The discovery represents one of the last Easter eggs without papers from the pre-Steve Jobs Return era at Apple. The Easter egg works via Mac OS 9.0.4 but seems to be eliminated by version 9.1, Brown Notes. The timing is in accordance with the ban on Jobs Easter eggs when he returned to Apple in 1997, although Brown wonders or jobs are ever aware of this specific secret.
Shortly thereafter, the ugly G3 all-in-one set the stage for the smaller and much Bluer-Imac.
Credit: Jonathan Zufi
In his position, Brown de Hoop expressed that he could make contact with the Apple employees in the photo – a lot that was fulfilled quickly. In the comments, a man named Bill Saperstein identified himself as the leader of the G3 team (fourth from the left in the second row) in the hidden image.
“We all knew about the Easter egg, but as you mentioned; the technique to extract it changed it from earlier Macs (although the location was the same),” Saperstein wrote in the comment. “This was the result of an Easter egg in the original PowerMac that Paula Abdul contained (of course without permissions). So the G3 team still wanted our photos in the ROM, but we had to keep it very secret.”
He also shared details in a different comment behind the scenes, and noted that his “couple Ragtag Engineers” developed the successful G3 line as a Skunk Works project, with hardware that later changed jobs in the groundbreaking iMac series Computers. “The team was really a group of talented people (both HW and SW) who were believers in the architecture I presented,” wrote Saperstein, “and performed the design behind the scenes for a year until Jon Rubenstein became wind and it presented to Steve and the rest is” History. “” “
