Ghosts in the ROM (2012)

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.

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.

Lots of great 90s Apple Easter Eggs are listed here (the PDF): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macintoshrepository.org&#x2F;226-apple-easter-eggs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macintoshrepository.org&#x2F;226-apple-easter-eggs</a><p>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.

Discussed at the time (of the article):<p><i>Ghosts in the rom</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4416032">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=4416032</a> - Aug 2012 (22 comments)

The resource type &#x27;SERD&#x27; is a driver for the SCC IO processor.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;SWIMDesignDocs&#x2F;IOP%20serial%20driver%20ERS&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.org&#x2F;details&#x2F;SWIMDesignDocs&#x2F;IOP%20serial%20dr...</a>

This brings back fond memories of the various Blue Meanies easter eggs in System 7.0.1 on my first Mac (actually my dad&#x27;s LC).<p>&quot;Help! Help! We&#x27;re being held prisoner in a system software factory!&quot;

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.

So uhhh... does anyone know all the people? I&#x27;d love to know each person&#x27;s nane.