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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. Don't mean to be a dick... by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... because i usually love this stuff, but how exactly does a 91MB video file on an CD counts as "easter egg"? And how came no one noticed it before - sheeze, it cant't be that easy to miss.

    PS, the video is cool, and the recompressed version is most welcome!

    1. Re:Don't mean to be a dick... by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

      it WAS noticed before.

      YEARS AGO..

      when 7.1 was fresh.

      you know, maybe someone thought that because such 'hidden' stuff in software is called easter eggs that it would be a proper thing to post during easter. well it's not.

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

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  2. Re:POS: format isn't recognized. by aristotle-dude · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now you know how mac users feel when we can't play WMV 9 files that use some new windows only codec.

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  3. The point here... by eltirado · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the point here is to encourage dialogue about Easter Eggs, not bash Slashdot. Anyone got any cool MacOS X Easter Eggs???