Ghosts In The ROM: Hacking Into A 25 Year Old Macintosh Easter Egg
An old-as-the-hills Easter Egg has been rediscovered by New York based hacker collective NYC Resistor: hidden pictures of the Macintosh team from 1986 hidden in the Mac SE’s system ROM. The Easter Egg has been known about forever — references to it on the Internet go back to at least 1999 — but more interesting than the Easter Egg itself is how NYC Resistor discovered for themselves how it was done: by good, old fashioned hacking.
Finding an old Mac SE on the side of the street, NYC Resistor dragged the machine back to their workshop. Knowing about the Easter Egg from forum posts online (the Easter Egg can easily be triggered and displayed on any Mac SE), NYC Resistor set to work uncovering where it was stored on the hardware, then dissecting how it was done.
