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Apple Easter Egg
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."
Pirate flag + bit torrent = hidden message?
Tin foil hat goes ON
Life is not for the lazy.
You know the PSP launch is a failure when you need year old news to fill the Slashdot front page.
!! Notify the MPAA!
Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?
Early 1990's....*shudders*
"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? :)
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Shouldn't that be dust bunnies from the archives? For Easter, of course.
I love the guy who has the Velcro shoes. So much more convenient than laces, I wonder why they're not popular anymore.
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.
What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
I wonder if the Exchange Server Drones did.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
If you can find the easter egg in Delphi 7, I'm the guy holding the giant plastic rat.
hey guys! I made a screenshot of it. http://www.albert-feller.de/temp/screenshot_of_Our _Gang.png