Coincidence it seems that somebody else was reading the Apple Folklore site recently and found a reference to the Quadra 660 Easter Egg which was a QuickTime movie un-marked on the System Install CD (recompressed for your viewing pleasure here of the team toasting the finish of the project in front of a Pirate Flag. The windows look like the Valley Green 6 building to me. They also show the motherboard (which had surface mount components on both sides! It ends after more harmless nonsense with a nice fadeout on the Pirate flag...
The deal with Easter Eggs at Apple in those days was that typically there was NO approval for them (management wanted plausible deniability), and if you got caught before ship (or sometimes after ship) you could get fired. Still, it was considered very cool to manage to ship one, and some of them were really clever. A true Easter Egg was only accessible if you did something specific (such as a certain keystroke sequence while launching the About or some other routine sequence). As an Easter present, here's a pointer to a nice list of Easter Eggs in MacOSX.
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