“If you double-click the file, SimpleText will open it,” Brown describes on his blog site right before showing the covert group picture that emerges after following the actions.

The discovery represents among the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return period at Apple. The Easter egg overcomes Mac OS 9.0.4 however appears to have actually been disabled by variation 9.1, Brown notes. The timing lines up with Jobs’ reported restriction on Easter eggs when he went back to Apple in 1997, though Brown marvels whether Jobs ever understood about this specific trick.

In his post, Brown revealed hope that he may get in touch with the Apple workers included in the picture– a hope that was rapidly satisfied. In the remarks, a guy called Bill Saperstein recognized himself as the leader of the G3 group (imagined 4th from left in the 2nd row) in the concealed image.

“We all knew about the Easter egg, but as you mention; the technique to extract it changed from previous Macs (although the location was the same),” Saperstein composed in the remark. “This resulted from an Easter egg in the original PowerMac that contained Paula Abdul (without permissions, of course). So the G3 team wanted to still have our pictures in the ROM, but we had to keep it very secret.”

He likewise shared behind-the-scenes information in another remark, keeping in mind that his “bunch of ragtag engineers” established the effective G3 line as a skunk works task, with hardware that Jobs later on became the groundbreaking iMac series of computer systems. “The team was really a group of talented people (both hw and sw) that were believers in the architecture I presented,” Saperstein composed, “and executed the design behind the scenes for a year until Jon Rubenstein got wind of it and presented it to Steve and the rest is ‘history.'”