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AppleFax Modem

While holding down the button on the front, turn on the modem.
The modem beeps three times. After the three beeps, press the button three times in the same rhythm as the beeps.
If your timing is right, the modem pronounces the names of the three Apple engineers who worked on the modem (Peter, Alan, and Neal).

Open the Cache Switch control panel, click Option, then click the version number.
The 040 icon slides over, revealing the name of the programmer.

Choose Show Balloons from the Balloon Help menu and move the cursor over the version number.
The balloon reads "Wink, Wink!"

Choose Show Balloons from the Balloon Help menu and move the cursor over the Caps Lock file icon in the Finder. Alternatively, install the Caps Lock extension, turn on Balloon Help, press the Caps Lock key, and move the cursor over the up-arrow icon in the menu bar.
The balloon reads: "This file allows your Macintosh TIM or Derringer to display an icon in the menu bar to indicate that caps lock is on." TIM and Derringer were the code names of the first PowerBooks.

Somebody apparently forgot to remove the code name references from the extension released with System 7.0.1. Subsequent versions do not have this Easter egg.

Open the Color control panel under System 7 and click the sample text, holding down the mouse button. The words "sample text" are replaced with "by Dean Yu" and if you click and hold again, the words "& Vincent Lo" appear. These are the two Apple programmers responsible for the control panel.
If you're running System 7.1 or later, every 16th click the name Don Louv appears.

Holding down the Option key, choose About DART from the File menu.
In addition to the normal information on version numbers and copyright dates, the window displays the name of the programmer, David Mutter, and those he wishes to thank.

Choose About FaxMaker from the Apple menu, then click the icon. The arrow pointer changes into a mouse, and a scrolling list of the developers appears.

Double-click Installer 3.0.1 (the version that comes with System 6.0.7 and 6.0.8), and click OK, then type "ski" to present an alert box in which you can choose from five wait-cursors: hand with counting fingers, spinning globe, spinning disc, wristwatch, and dots that move. The custom cursor only works while the Installer is running; it doesn't become the System-wide wait cursor.

Double-click Installer 3.2 (the version that comes with System 7), and click OK, then hold down Command-Option. The Help button becomes the About button. Click it to see the names of the programmers, beta testers, and friends.

Open the Labels control panel under System 7 and delete all of the label names by repeatedly pressing tab, then delete. When all of the names are blank, close the control panel and choose Restart from the Finder's Special menu. Now if you pull down the Labels menu in the Finder, the first item is still None, but the remaining seven labels spell out "ALANJEF," the names of the Apple programmers who wrote this control panel.

Hold down Command-Option-X-O (the Classic's code name was XO) and turn on the computer to start up running System 6.0.3, Finder 6.1x, and AppleShare from a ROM-disk. This secret disk is contained in the read-only memory of the Classic and may not be altered.

Apparently the ROM-disk was supposed to allow the Classic to be sold as a diskless workstation, but Apple abandoned that marketing angle without removing the capability from the machine.

Using a program able to see invisible files (like ResEdit, Norton Utilities, or MacTools), examine the ROM-disk for a "Brought to you by" folder containing more hidden folders bearing the names of the Classic designers.

Open the General Controls control panel and set the date to 9/20/89 (the release date of the Mac IIci). Choose Restart from the Finder's Special menu, then immediately hold down Command-Option-C-I. In a few seconds, a color picture of the IIci design team appears. Click the mouse to continue.

Open the General Controls control panel and set the date to 3/19/90 (the release date of the IIfx). Choose Restart from the Finder's Special menu, then immediately hold down Command-Option-F-X. In a few seconds, a color picture of the IIfx design team appears. Click the mouse to continue.

Press the programmer's switch to generate an interrupt. The blank debugger window appears. Enter "DM 4086F088 20" and press Return to display a few bytes of memory that spell out, in ASCII, "SO...WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?"

Inside the Mac Plus there are two switches accessible only if an optional pair of buttons called the programmer's switch is installed toward the rear on the left side. In the Finder, with no other applications open, press the rear part of the programmer's switch to generate an interrupt. A blank window appears. This is the Mac's built-in debugger used by knowledgeable programmers. Enter "G 40E118" (that's a zero, not the letter O), then press Return to see a tiny "Stolen from Apple Computer" message in the upper left-hand corner of your screen. To exit the debugger, press the front part of the programmer's switch to reset the Mac.

Apparently the "Stolen from..." message is a form of copyright protection so that Apple can easily determine if a clone manufacturer has simply copied its read-only memory.

Press the rear part of the programmer's switch to generate an interrupt. The blank debugger window appears. Enter "G 41D89A" and press Return. Four pictures of the Mac SE development team appear as a slideshow. To exit the debugger, press the front part of the programmer's switch to reset the Mac. The engineers were able to include these digitized pictures because they based the Mac SE on the same 256-kilobyte ROMs in the Mac II, but the Mac SE didn't need many of the things contained therein, so there was plenty of extra space in which to hide their Easter egg. Later versions of the Mac SE do not contain this picture.

Also, try entering "G 4188A4" into the debugger. This presents a "Stolen from Apple Computer" message in the upper left-hand corner of your screen.

Press the rear part of the programmer's switch to generate an interrupt. The blank debugger window appears. Enter "DM 4082E853 20" and press Return to display a few bytes of memory from location 4082E853 onwards. The bytes there spell out, in ASCII, "WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT?" Also, try entering "G EB1000" into the debugger to display the Macintosh SE/30 Engineering Hall of Fame.

Hold down Tab-Space while choosing About MacPaint from the Apple menu to display a painting of a nude zebra-striped woman. The painting is by well-known erotic artist Olivia de Berardinis and was inserted in the code by programmer David Ramsey. When Claris received complaints about this Easter egg, it was quickly removed, so only very early copies contain this image.

Choose Show Balloons from the Balloon Help menu, then move the cursor over the MacsBug file icon in the Finder. The balloon reads "This file provides programmers with information proving that it really was a hardware problem."

Open the Map control panel, enter "MID" as the city name, then click Find. The map centers on a flashing point in the south Atlantic which represents the "Middle of Nowhere."

Clicking on the map version number inserts both the version number and "by Mark Davis" (the programmer) into the city name field until you release the mouse button.

Open the Memory control panel under System 7. Turn on Virtual Memory and hold down Option while clicking on the Select Hard Disk pop-up menu to present the first names of the programmers; each name has a submenu with a few comments.

Open the Monitors control panel under System 7, then click the version number to see a short list of the programmers. While you hold down the mouse button, tap Option several times and the little smiley face sticks out its tongue. After repeatedly tapping Option, the names are rearranged and some first and last names get replaced with "Blue" or "Meanies," a reference to the nickname of the System 7 programming team.

Hold down Command-Option while choosing About MultiFinder from the Apple menu to display a scrolling list of credits.

Choose About MultiFinder from the Apple menu and leave the alert box on screen for about an hour or more. Eventually you see the message "I want my l--k and f--l" (that's "look and feel," in case you were wondering).

Write "About Newton" on your MessagePad and highlight these words by holding the pen down until a large dot appears at its tip then drawing a line across the words. Tap Assist to display the names of all the Newton developers.

Tap the clock in the lower left-hand corner and continue holding down to display the current temperature (the battery level indicator works by sensing temperature).

Go to the Map, tap Find, then write "Elvis" to see the name of a randomly selected city in which "The King was sighted in."

Open the PowerBook control panel and Option-click the version number to display a credits dialog box.

Choose Show Balloons from the Balloon Help menu, then move the cursor over the QuickTime extension file. The balloon reads "Time n. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past to the present to the future."

Hold down Shift-Option-Command as you choose About ResEdit from the Apple menu. You get the chance to enter "pig mode" (oink oink oink). When you put ResEdit into pig mode, resources are compacted and purged each time ResEdit goes through its event loop (several times a second). Since this makes ResEdit slower, it's not of much use, except that you get to hear the funny pig noises.

Also, just try holding down only Command-Option while choosing About ResEdit from the Apple menu to display credits.

Hold down Option as you choose About Simple Player from the Apple menu. The two movie frames now have gray-scale cats in them.

Open the Sound control panel and hold down Option while choosing anything from the popup menu to hear a strange, screaming/roaring sound effect. A dialog box appears showing the names of the people who worked on the Sound control panel.

On a Quadra AV system, choose Effects from the popup menu and click on the wave icon in the lower right-hand corner of the window. It draws a line and the words "by Jeff Boone."

Open the General Controls control panel and set the date to 1/1/92, then choose Restart from the Finder's Special menu. The startup screen displays "Happy New Year" in Japanese. This only works with the KanjiTalk version of the System software.

Insert an unlocked floppy disk into a drive and click on its name in the Finder. Change the name to either "KMEG JJ KS" or "Hello world JS N A DTP" (enter exactly as shown without the quotation marks, paying attention to upper- and lower-case letters). Press Command-E to eject the disk. Click the dimmed disk icon that remains on the desktop to present an alert box that asks you to "Please insert the disk: HFS for 7.0 by dnf and ksct." These are the initials of David N. Feldman and Kenny S. C. Tung, the two Apple engineers responsible updating the hierarchical filing system.

Press Option and look in the Apple menu. The first item, About This Macintosh, changes to About The Finder. Choose it to see a picture of mountains which first appeared in System 1.0.

If the creation date of the invisible Desktop Folder is May 13, 1991 (the release date of System 7), or later, wait a few seconds and the names of all the Finder developers through Mac and Lisa history scroll by along the bottom of the window.

If you press Command-Option while choosing About The Finder, the arrow cursor turns into a goofy face.

Open SimpleText, the improved NotePad, or any other Drag Manager-enabled word processor. Type "secret about box" then select these words and drag them to the Finder's desktop to present a Breakout game in which the names of the System 7.5 programmers appear on the bricks. To quit the game, click the mouse button.

Open the System file with a word processor to see a frivolous distress call from the development team. If you are using System 6, the message is "Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!" Under System 7, the message is "Help! Help! We're still being held prisoner in a system software factory!" The message is followed by the names of the Blue Meanies, Apple's System 7 quality-control team. After viewing this Easter egg, just close the document; don't try saving the file or you may seriously screw up your Mac.

In TeachText, press Option and choose About TeachText from the Apple menu to display the standard credits alert box expanded to include the names of people the programmers wish to thank.

Kudos: Kevin A

Hold down Option and select "About At Ease" from the Apple menu.  The figurines
will be replaced by photos of the programmers.