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Easter egg image uncovered in Power Mac G3 ROM after 27 years


A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project.

A self-described computer geek has revealed a previously secret "easter egg" image file buried in the ROM code of the 27-year-old Power Macintosh G3 that shows the team that worked on the project. Doug Brown, who maintains a blog that documents his experiments and research into older computers, said that he accidentally discovered the Easter egg while looking through resources in the Power Mac G3's ROM. A collaborator who was following Brown's discovery and running a browser-based emulator tool called Infinite Mac came up with the answer: create and format the RAM disk, and give it the name of "secret ROM image."

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