Musings from The Software Underground

This is a really cool hack, you can now run the classic Mac OS on a "stick," essentially a USB drive. It emulates a Mac Plus, and will run any OS version that the Plus used to be able to run, up to System 7.0.1. You can also find a list of old applications that will run on this as well, including games, productivity apps and utilities.

I've been using portable Firefox with my keychain flash device for a little while now, and today reader Dimitri has pointed out the Mac-on-a-stick project. Basically, it allows you to put a completely functional version of the Macintosh operating system (in this case, system 7.0.1) onto a USB flash memory device.

It's a pretty easy install (other than all the "disk" swapping, wow did THAT bring back memories..), once you have all the pieces.

Check it out: Mac System 7.0.1 on your keychain (By way of tuwa.com)