Re: Apple //gs Easter Egg - maybe

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19970124101001.FAA17852@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Xenman2 <xenman2@aol.com> wrote:
>I have had a ROM 01 //gs for a number of months now and the other night I
>switched it on with no drive to boot so the normal 'Check startup' warning
>came on.  Having a baby in one needing feeding, I left the computer in
>that state while I gave baby her bottle and watched TV.  I really lost
>track of time, but when I looked at the computer screen later,  it had a
>credit listing of people apparently responsible for the ROM programming. 
>Pressing a key sent the gs into the monitor with a hexdump and I could not
>do anything without shutting down.  I have not been able to duplicate this
>event, only having retried twice.
>
>Is this an Easter Egg and when is this event supposed to occur?

You can see it any time you want by pressing cmd-option-ctrl-n. On a ROM 3,
you get the added bonus of having the machine yell "APPLE II" at you.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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