You are an android user, but still want to show your loyalty to the Macintosh on your wrist? Well, after the custom built 1970s-themed Apple II Watch, next on the list of options is a wearable running the System 6 operating system from the 1987 Macintosh II. As long as the fact that it's running on an Android Wear device don't bother you, you can experience System 6 and its desktop, windows, and menu bar in their full glory on a 1.6-inch screen!


This creative hack comes from YouTube user Corbin Davenport, who already has plenty of experience bringing aging operating systems to the wearable of today. Last fall, the 16-year-old developer managed to run Windows 95 on a Samsung Gear Live. This time around, he's bought the Macintosh II software to the same Android Wear device thanks to emulator app Mini V Mac II.


Davenport's video reveals a faithful port of System 6, complete with boot-up screens and menus. As you would expect, it turns out to be incredibly difficult to not only use a desktop OS without a mouse, but on such a tiny touchscreen. Good luck trying to tap the specific icon to open a folder or launch an application.

Nonetheless, the emulation is impressive to see and you can't help but laugh at the software of a near-30-year-old desktop computer running on a wrist computer of today. Now we'll just have to see if the OS X Yosemite of today will still work on our cornea implant devices of the 2040s.

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