As early as 2012 he was sharing the gospel of what was to become TempleOS.
My favorite one is the story of an engineer who hid an image of Paula Abdul on a CD-ROM (another version I heard was a ROM chip) without anyone’s knowledge. When the image was finally discovered production had already begun, making for a very expensive Easter egg to remove.
Ghosts in the rom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4416032 - Aug 2012 (22 comments)
https://archive.org/details/SWIMDesignDocs/IOP%20serial%20dr...
"Help! Help! We're being held prisoner in a system software factory!"
System 7.1: "Help! Help! We're still being held prisoner in a system software factory!"
System 7.5: "Help! Help! He's STILL being held prisoner in a system software factory!"
System 7.5.3: "Mercenaries hit the software factory and freed the prisoners."
>https://www.nycresistor.com/2012/08/21/ghosts-in-the-rom/com...