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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. Re:That's one big ass easter egg by grahams · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the MOV was the easter egg. It was a hidden file on a System CD.

  2. Re:Nice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a picture, from this site

  3. Original file may ONLY play on Macs... by Billy_D_Goat · · Score: 5, Informative

    I noticed some people complaining about being unable to play the bittorrent original movie file. I suspect this is because of the age of the file. It was probably made using QT 1 or 2 and is in the ancient "Video" compression. Also, the file uses the classic mac resource identifiers and lacks a file extension. Anyone having trouble might try adding .MOV to the end of the Our Gang! file. The file DOES work on Macs though using QT.

  4. Re:oh come on, be fair by SewersOfRivendell · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sony is also the inventor of the 3.5" floppy. Just thought I'd mention it.

    Hmm... I doubted this statement, but I was wrong:

    In 1980, the 3.5 inch floppy drive and diskette was introduced by Sony.