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Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes "NYCResistor has published photos of what they call "Ghosts in the ROM" after dumping Apple Mac SE ROM images from a roadside Motorolla 68000 era Macintosh and looking at all the data (they mention an Easter egg reference to this from 1999). They go into some nice detail about the strategy for extracting this data from a discarded unit and noticing structure. There's also other data that they weren't able to identify which causes one to wonder how many other Easter eggs are lying about in various ROM chips and what modern Easter eggs must be shipping with software/hardware today."
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  • As cool as it is that the people involved made the effort to find those images, back in the day we knew they were there =) So maybe not /. material since so many users will be like "oh yeah, I so totally saw a silhouette of people when I pressed the reset / programmers button and started doing memory dumps until..." etc.

    But cool that younger-folk would spend the time. Maybe they'll reverse-engineer the Spectrum ROM and find Clive Sinclair swearing blue about Acorn... ;)

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