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Apple Easter Eggs
LaserWriters


By: David K. Every
& Daniel Fanton
(C) Copyright 1999 DKE - All Rights Reserved.

Personal LaserWriter SC
Personal LaserWriter SC Code Name: Shout

While running the Personal LaserWriter SC, version 7.0.1 (most likely other versions), click on the version number in the Page Setup or Print menu to see a list of credits.

LaserWriter 3000

While running the Personal LaserWriter SC, version 7.1 (most likely other versions), Option-click on the version number in the Page Setup or Print menu to see a list of credits.

The above two eggs also apply to a vast number of other drivers which will do the same thing.

LaserWriter Egg

Pretty near impossible to do, but:
  1. Power up with the rotary switch on the controller on "0".
     
  2. Rotate the switch to "4", wait 3 seconds, then rotate the switch continuously for 10 seconds.
     
  3. Stop on switch setting "5".
     
  4. After about 1-2 seconds, the green light will start blinking and a
    credits page will come out. (If you miss the timing, you have to power up again -- it only works on the first switch setting change!)

    Some notes about what you will see: "Fast fish in a hot car" was the caption to a project T-shirt featuring an illustration from "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" (the printer's operating system was code-named Dr. Seuss). The "fast fish" is Bass, the *real* code name for TrueType. "Bass" itself is a play on "scaleable" fonts.

    Guaranteed in revision 1.0, unknown in later revisions.

Super-Secret LaserWriter II w/Fax, order a Pizza egg
from David Every <[email protected]>

I wish I had all the details for this egg. But I heard it from the programmer at the 6th "stump the experts" game (at Apple's World Wide Develpers Conference).

Basically, if you send a certain small postscript file to the LaserWriter (II?), with the Fax modem installed, it will instead fax over an order to a favorite order to a Silicon Valley Pizza Shop. This got a huge round of applause from the other programmers. I'd love to record the specifics for posterity if anyone knows them.


Created: 08/26/98
Updated: 11/09/02


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