Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill
From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Questions on Mega4/HD/Laser setup (+ Dave & Bea)
Message-ID: <1659@mwca.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 90 05:51:03 GMT
References: <3011@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <31479@cup.portal.com> <26704@cherry.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <26704@cherry.athertn.Atherton.COM> alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens) writes:
>BobR writes:
>>Graham Thomas writes:
>>> ...
>If they had 'easter-egged' it, so that if you did something funky
>like bring up a dialog box, then hit ALT-SHIFT-CTL-F1-F2 and they
>pop a message to that effect, _then_ I'd be upset, 'cause that takes
>a chunk of codespace.  But 30 bytes?  Sheez.
>...
>|--alex | alex@Atherton.COM |  Caution!  Falling Opinions, next 6 miles   |
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>|        "AAAAAGH!  Friday the 13th is on a Friday this month!            |

Along the same lines...an interesting anecdote.

When Microware was writing the OS for the Tandy Coco III there was ~6K of ROM
space left over, which Radio Shack instructed to "fill with garbage". The
authors of the OS digitized a picture of themselves and put in a small routine
to display it upon pressing Alt-Ctrl-Reset (reset is on the back of the Coco).
Try it next time you're in Radio Shack - the clerk will have NO IDEA how that
picture got there!

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