I would say this was an intentional decision to have exclusive icons to the installer, but the animated icons (including the famous animated wristwatch) were later added to the System installation (I'm not sure by exactly which version, but sometime between System 7.1 and Mac OS 9.)

Different icons came and went between installer versions (7.0 and 7.1's installers do away with the Easter egg and cut the icons down to the animated wristwatch and hand), but they remain exclusive to the installer. This means that there's no way for other programs (or even the system) to use it, short of manually copying the icon from the installer and using it themselves. We can confirm this by using ResEdit to inspect the installer.Įven after installation, the animated icons aren't copied over to the system. System 6.0.4 didn't include an animated watch-only a static one-but the one in this installer includes an animated one. However, notice the hands this isn't quite the same version. You'll notice that (among others, including what looks to be the pre cursor to the current idle 'busy but clickable' icon) is the classic watch. As part of this, we get a few new loading icons! This includes the hand in question, which plays a counting-up animation during installation.įun fact: if you type 'ski' on the setup screen, you get a little Easter egg: an alert box which allows you to choose from one of five different idle cursors!

System 6.0.4 introduced a new installer version-3.0- designed to support customizable multi-disk installations. However, it looks like the counting version didn't appear until System 6.0.4.

The gloved hand icon, designed by Susan Kare, has been with us since the first version of Mac OS. They're probably leftover Origins and Classic Mac OS

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