Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
the Virtual OS Museum Not a physical place, but a collection of things 1,700 distinct facilities From over 600 operating systems for over 250 platforms you can download and run emulators directly on your PC. It’s pretty much one man’s work, Andrew Warkentinan OS developer and historian who has been slowly building his collection of OS images since 2003.
The library covers almost the entire history of computing since 1948 Manchester Babythe first stock computer software, was released for early versions of Android as of 2011. Unsurprisingly, there Lots of obscure operating systems There are, including countless DOS variants, Moss For Acorn BBC Master, and a number of hobby operating systems such as Nitro OS-9which brings a host of modern features to the 1980s Tandy Radio Shack CoCo line.
Images are generally not bundled with software beyond what can be included in the operating system (think calculators, file managers, and text editors), so they are somewhat limited out of the box, and CTSS software can be difficult to obtain. But if you want to relive the glory days Windows 95This is a strong bet.
Just be careful, the Virtual OS Museum is quite large download. The full version with all images included is 127GB when compressed. Even the Lite version, which downloads images as needed, weighs in at 14GB.
