Adam Mayer and Trammell Hudson from NYC Resistor uncovered a series of photos stored in the ROM of an old Macintosh SE. We’ve previously covered the ROM dumping that’s been going on the Brooklyn-based hackerspace and it looks like they’ve uncovered quite an easter egg. While the existence of one of the images was already known, they used their own homebrew python tools to uncover the rest. Presumably, the people in the photos are the team members behind the creation of the Macintosh SE. Check out their full write up for how they uncovered this incredible digital time capsule.

UPDATE: Since publishing, I was able to find a few other references to these images online, but none that discuss how to get the data itself off the ROM, only how to display the image on the Mac’s screen.

BY Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist, contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. He's also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt's work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.

7 Responses to ROM Dumping Leads to Discovery of 25 Year Old Easter Egg

  1. Paul Campbell on said:

    I’m pretty sure we knew that was there back in ’84 – maybe it was forgotten

  2. I guess the real question lies in Who are those people ? and Where are they now ? ? ?

  3. Paul Campbell on said:

    here we go – I remember there being a magic command to print it out:

    http://www.eeggs.com/items/2258.html

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