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The easter egg within the signatures was the paw print - of Jay Miner's dog, as she spent as much time in the office! (Upper left in the photo).

Interesting to see the reinforcing rib, missing in the release version, that's been manually nibbled away in the dev box.

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It might have been a legend or an exaggeration, but Miner sometimes asked Mitchy whether to draw a circuit one way or another. He'd look at the dog's tail for a response. More often than not, she was right.

More seriously, he admitted that the presence of the dog set a much informal tone in the office and made it easier to hire "unconventional" characters.

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