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Apple Easter Eggs Hardware: Macintosh SE/30 By: David K. Every & Daniel Fanton (C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved. Early Macintosh ROMs With a debugger, look at the last few locations of the ROM of your machine (this changes so you just have to know where it is, or walk memory to the end -- usually it was 64K or 128K out). Developers put their initials as well as the date that the ROM was linked at the end of the ROMs. For example, the 128k ROM (Mac Plus) contains at $41FFC0-$41FFFF: ALR ELR BA BMB EHB JTC SC DLD PWD KWK LAK SEL BWed, Nov 6, 1985 These are the initials of: Erich Ringewald, Bill Atkinson, Bill Bruffey, Ernie Beernik (sp?), Jerome Coonan, Steve Capps, Donn Denmann, Pat Dirks, ?, Larry Kenyon, ? Later ROMS (like the 840AV, the Powerbook 170, and LCIII) all tested, did not have the initials but they did have the date. Created: 07/26/99 Updated: 11/09/02 Top of page Top of Section Home