“If you double-click the file, SimpleText will open it,” explains Brown on his blog just before displaying the hidden team photo that emerges after following the steps.
Discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs in the Spanish of pre-steve return return at Apple. The Easter egg works via Mac OS 9.0.4 but seems to have been disabled by version 9.1, notes Brown. Timing aligns with the ban on Job Easter eggs when he returned to Apple in 1997, although Brown wonders if Jobs has ever known this particular secret.
In his article, Brown expressed his hope that he could connect with the apple employees presented in the photo – a hope that was quickly satisfied. In the comments, a man by the name of Bill Sperstein was identified as the leader of the G3 team (illustrated fourth on the left in the second row) in the hidden image.
“We all knew the Easter egg, but as you mention it; the technique to extract it changed compared to the previous Macs (although the location is the same),” wrote Saperstein in the commentary. “This results from an Easter egg in the original Powermac which Paula Abdul content (without authorization, of course). The G3 team therefore wanted to have our photos in the ROM, but we had to keep it very secret. “”
He also shared behind the scenes details in another comment, noting that his “Bunch of Ragtag Engineers” developed the successful G3 line as a Skunk Works project, with equipment that the work was later transformed into the Revolutionary Imac Computers series. “The team was really a group of talented people (HW and SW) who believed in the architecture that I presented,” wrote Saperstein, “and executed the design behind the scenes for a year until Jon Rubenstein was wind and presented it to Steve and the rest was” history. “”
