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Apple Easter Egg

Posted by Zonk on from the arrr-pirates dept.

AnamanFan writes "Many years ago an easter egg was uncovered on the MacOS System 7.1 CD included with the Quadra 660av and 840av machines. A 91mb MOV file shows the Cyclone/Tempest team celebrating with a nice pirate flag in the background. Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent."

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  1. Ohhhh =) by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pirate flag + bit torrent = hidden message?

    Tin foil hat goes ON

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    1. Re:Ohhhh =) by wootest · · Score: 3, Funny

      Not to mention it being *easter* now.

  2. Slow news day? by DraconPern · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know the PSP launch is a failure when you need year old news to fill the Slashdot front page.

  3. omg pirate flag... by omicronish · · Score: 5, Funny

    !! Notify the MPAA!

  4. GANGBANG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    1 chick, 9 guys?

    There are some days I wished these damned machines were never invented.

    1. Re:GANGBANG! by xander2032 · · Score: 1, Funny

      I hate to say it, but I don't think those boys would know what to do with a woman! They have to be the biggest geeks I've ever seen in my life!! We're talking some scary shit here man! This is why I'll never buy a Mac... Look at the people who design them!!!

  5. Slow Speeds by rickst13 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?

  6. what was HD size on those macs? by dmarcoot · · Score: 1, Funny

    my old 7500 was only 500 MB, so im guessing the HD they shipped was 250 MB? whatever the size was, if they had a easter egg that was that large that was irresponsible and flagrant abuse and waste of their customers hardware resources and dollars

    1. Re:what was HD size on those macs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Did you read the article, or just glance at it while freebasing? THE EASTER EGG WAS ON THE FUCKING CD.

  7. *Shudders* by CypherXero · · Score: 5, Funny

    Early 1990's....*shudders*

  8. System 7.1 cd?? by lilricky · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent." Cool, where is the System 7.1 CD then? :)

  9. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by Compact+Dick · · Score: 3, Funny
    And how came no one noticed it before - sheeze, it cant't be that easy to miss.
    We're talking Mac users. What were you expecting?
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  10. Re:WTF?!? Did MSNBC just buy /.? by Frankie70 · · Score: 2, Funny


    If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?

    You must be new here.

  11. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    slashdot: add a "DUST FROM THE ARCHIVES" section to put this kind of stuff under...

    No way, we'll just post it as breaking news.

  12. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by artifex2004 · · Score: 3, Funny
    slashdot: add a "DUST FROM THE ARCHIVES" section to put this kind of stuff under...


    Shouldn't that be dust bunnies from the archives? For Easter, of course.
  13. No, that's just good compression by QMO · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that if you read the story post again you'll get some interesting information.

    You say 91 Mb, the GP says 91 MB, but the story says 91 mb. I am very interested in the compression algorithm that fits any .mov file into less than an 80th of a byte. I would like to fit my entire music collection on my Atari 800, or my TI-82 graphing calculator.

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  14. Velcro! by Wysz · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love the guy who has the Velcro shoes. So much more convenient than laces, I wonder why they're not popular anymore.

    1. Re:Velcro! by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not popular? But I still have two pairs...

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    2. Re:Velcro! by schiefaw · · Score: 2, Funny

      My little sister had velcro straps on her shoes when she was a kid (around 9 years old). She would cry and scream because she couldn't get the straps to line up perfectly. Should have been a warning sign, I guess. Not the shoes for obsessive compulsives.

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  15. The link title is a little misleading. by RenaissanceGeek · · Score: 4, Funny
    I was rather excited about the Macintosh System 7.1 CD finally becoming available online, and similarly disappointed that the only bit now available is the easter-egg movie.

    As nice as that is, that's not what the title of the link says.

    Although Macintosh System 6.0.x, System 7.0.1, and System 7.5.3 are both available for download for free from Apple (in "convenient" floppy-disk-sized pieces for those systems that have no CD-drive), System 7.1 remains unavailable (except via eBay, of course) due to, I believe, some liscencing issues with PowerTalk, or something. It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.

    There's a high probability that issues like that in Apple's history is what leads their management to either aquire technologies outright (like NeXT) or develop an equivilant in-house (like Dashboard instead of Confabulator) instead of liscencing them (like Be wanted Apple to do with BeOS.)

    It means that the only force to consult in the future when deciding what happens to a given bit of code is Apple itself. MUCH simpler.

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  16. Re:That's one big ass easter egg by xanadu-xtroot.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if the Exchange Server Drones did.

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  17. Re:WTF?!? Did MSNBC just buy /.? by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> If this Easter Egg was discovered so many years ago, then how come the news is only appearing on Slashdot now?

    Don't worry, It'll get posted twice to make up for the delay...

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  18. My only easter egg by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can find the easter egg in Delphi 7, I'm the guy holding the giant plastic rat.

  19. Proof that Apple supports Piracy! by Orion+Blastar · · Score: 2, Funny

    After all, why wave around a pirate flag when you do not support piracy?

    Arrrhhhh, pirates of ye world, unite, Apple be hoisting the pirate colors. Party at One Infinte Loop, Captain Steve is buying the rum! Thar be booty fer all!

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  20. Re:Do you want MORE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    rofl, who subscribes to those? :-p

    rofl, the Easter Bunny!... :-|

  21. Re:Nice...VOID by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    But not as good as cracking open a Mac 128K and finding the signatures of the design team in raised lettering on it.

    Voided your warrenty on that box real quick, didn't you.

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  22. Looks great! (screenshot) by uibi · · Score: 3, Funny

    hey guys! I made a screenshot of it. http://www.albert-feller.de/temp/screenshot_of_Our _Gang.png