MORE Sys7 Easter Eggs
Michael Wehrmeister
net.
(Sorry for a repost if they have been)
From "MacWorld's Macintosh Secrets" (A great book for stuff like this):
Using the Apple Installer, on the Easy Install screen, click
moth-option to change the Help button to About. Click on About.
Using Word (Its the only one I tried but it might work in others),
press shift while using Open in the File menu (I think this is to allow
you to see all file types), and then open the system file. You get a
message from the 13 Blue Meanies w/ their names. This also works with
System6 but you get a slightly different message.
I'll post more as I find them.
Michael
wo...@byu.edu
Jonathan D Baumgartner
wo...@byu.edu (Michael Wehrmeister) writes:
> Using the Apple Installer, on the Easy Install screen, click
> moth-option to change the Help button to About. Click on About.
Moth?? Ya know, I never really noticed the similarity before ... :-)
jon (I still call it the Command key)
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Jonathan D. Baumgartner jdb...@unh.edu
Computing & Information Services, University of New Hampshire
"It's just a matter of opinion." -- Primus
Ross Brown
jdb...@unh.edu (Jonathan D Baumgartner) writes:
> > Using the Apple Installer, on the Easy Install screen, click
> > moth-option to change the Help button to About. Click on About.
>
> Moth?? Ya know, I never really noticed the similarity before ... :-)
>
> jon (I still call it the Command key)
I think this calls for a competition to give the key a proper pet name.
So far I've heard of...
- Apple
- Command
- Meta (for X fans; can't use Alt, that's on the Option key)
- Moth
- Squiggle
- Doily
- Cloverleaf
- Applejack (it does look like a jack, the kind you play jacks with)
- Mouseketeer (remembering the hats)
- Quincunx (look it up, and use it the next time you play Scrabble)
I'm sure you netters can do better.
Ross Brown - AWOL Software Productions - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
ab...@freenet.carleton.ca
Robert Cassidy
Brown) wrote:
> In article <2dfrav$p...@mozz.unh.edu>
> jdb...@unh.edu (Jonathan D Baumgartner) writes:
>
> > > Using the Apple Installer, on the Easy Install screen, click
> > > moth-option to change the Help button to About. Click on About.
> >
> > Moth?? Ya know, I never really noticed the similarity before ... :-)
> >
> > jon (I still call it the Command key)
>
> I think this calls for a competition to give the key a proper pet name.
> So far I've heard of...
> - Apple
> - Command
> - Meta (for X fans; can't use Alt, that's on the Option key)
> - Moth
> - Squiggle
> - Doily
> - Cloverleaf
> - Applejack (it does look like a jack, the kind you play jacks with)
> - Mouseketeer (remembering the hats)
> - Quincunx (look it up, and use it the next time you play Scrabble)
>
> I'm sure you netters can do better.
Well, my boss insists on calling it "puppy foot". Not much of a similarity
if you ask me...
Andreas Wickberg
> So far I've heard of...
In Sweden you call it "rune" (actually "runa"). Swedish maps has old ruins
and other ancient stuff (for example rune stones) marked with the same
symbol.
Andreas Wickberg
Johann E. Beda
>> So far I've heard of...
One of my NeXT friends calls it 'fan', for some not well defined reason.
johann
j-b...@uiuc.edu
Ben Burch
Splat
"I don't speak for Motorola; They don't speak for me."
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Ben_...@msmail.wes.mot.com | Good PDAs go EVERYWHERE.
Stephane Divoux
known, don't you think so?
Stephane
Robert Cassidy
> In article <2dfrav$p...@mozz.unh.edu>
> jdb...@unh.edu (Jonathan D Baumgartner) writes:
>
> > > Using the Apple Installer, on the Easy Install screen, click
> > > moth-option to change the Help button to About. Click on About.
> >
> > Moth?? Ya know, I never really noticed the similarity before ... :-)
> >
> > jon (I still call it the Command key)
>
> I think this calls for a competition to give the key a proper pet name.
> So far I've heard of...
> - Apple
> - Command
> - Meta (for X fans; can't use Alt, that's on the Option key)
> - Moth
> - Squiggle
> - Doily
> - Cloverleaf
> - Applejack (it does look like a jack, the kind you play jacks with)
> - Mouseketeer (remembering the hats)
> - Quincunx (look it up, and use it the next time you play Scrabble)
>
> I'm sure you netters can do better.
>
Jeesh, I forgot to add my own name to the list. I've always called it
'flower' - picked it up from a friend of mine years ago...
Owen S. Nishioka
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These are my own personal views. After all, who else would want 'em!
Malcolm Bebb
Divoux) wrote:
I think you will find that someone already did - look around at Sumex,
maybe. It was a while ago, and got posted a few times. Don't know the
current status or location, though.
Malcolm be...@ferndown.ate.slb.com (Usual disclaimers apply)
mb...@cix.compulink.co.uk
00bkpi...@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Wow, there are some new ones there for me. I like the "splat" as a decent
descriptive name. I've found it best to use a different name each time
you refer to the key. ;-))
--Brian Pickerill <00bkpi...@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Hypnotist of Ladies
>So far I've heard of...
>- Apple
>- Command
>- Meta (for X fans; can't use Alt, that's on the Option key)
>- Moth
>- Squiggle
>- Doily
>- Cloverleaf
>- Applejack (it does look like a jack, the kind you play jacks with)
>- Mouseketeer (remembering the hats)
>- Quincunx (look it up, and use it the next time you play Scrabble)
I think Apple ][ folks call it 'open Apple' (is there a closed apple key
too?). I have also heard just 'clover', the abbreviated form of cloverleaf.
-Neal Tucker
_________________________
"I'm JJ, King of Beepers"
Tony Quan
>Ross Brown <ro...@bnr.ca> wrote:
>>So far I've heard of...
>>- Apple
>>- Command
>>- Meta (for X fans; can't use Alt, that's on the Option key)
>>- Moth
>>- Squiggle
>>- Doily
>>- Cloverleaf
>>- Applejack (it does look like a jack, the kind you play jacks with)
>>- Mouseketeer (remembering the hats)
>>- Quincunx (look it up, and use it the next time you play Scrabble)
>
>I think Apple ][ folks call it 'open Apple' (is there a closed apple key
>too?). I have also heard just 'clover', the abbreviated form of cloverleaf.
>
Yes, on Apple IIe's and above there was a closed apple key also. I
personally call the Macintosh "Command" key the "Smashed Bug" key.
It sounds kind of cool--now everybody type "Smashed Bug-V" please :-)
--Tony
Johann E. Beda
>> known, don't you think so?
>>
>maybe. It was a while ago, and got posted a few times. Don't know the
>current status or location, though.
It is called 'stupid-mac-tricks' or something similar.
johann
j-b...@uiuc.edu
Eric Soroos
qu...@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) wrote:
> >
> >I think Apple ][ folks call it 'open Apple' (is there a closed apple key
> >too?). I have also heard just 'clover', the abbreviated form of cloverleaf.
> >
>
> Yes, on Apple IIe's and above there was a closed apple key also. I
> personally call the Macintosh "Command" key the "Smashed Bug" key.
> It sounds kind of cool--now everybody type "Smashed Bug-V" please :-)
>
> --Tony
Did anybody notice that right around the time that the ][ series died,
new macs started to be able to use [control]-[open apple]-[reset] to
restart the
machine after a crash? ok, so it's not really reset, it's a triangle, but
it's a triangle on the ][gs too.
eric
Lou Sortman
Ben Burch <Burc...@msmail.wes.mot.com> wrote:
>In article <1993Nov30.1...@bmers95.bnr.ca> Ross Brown,
>ro...@bnr.ca writes:
>>So far I've heard of...
>
>Splat
But Ben; splat is one of the names for an asterisk. (*)
OBTW, say hi to everyone for Melinda and Myself.
>
>"I don't speak for Motorola; They don't speak for me."
>-Ben Burch | Motorola Wireless Data Group:
>Ben_...@msmail.wes.mot.com | Good PDAs go EVERYWHERE.
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l...@tfnet.ils.unc.edu (Lou Sortman)
Coherent User, Denture Wearer
Hi Dad!
Lou Sortman
Stephane Divoux <div...@liasg1.epfl.ch> wrote:
>It would be great if someone can make a digest of all the easter eggs
>known, don't you think so?
>
>Stephane
Holy Cholesterol, Batman!