Virtual OS Museum allows you to recall more than 600 operating systems on your computer

The Virtual OS Museum It is not a physical location, and the collection is complete 1,700 different settings For more than 600 systems over 250 platforms that you can download and run in simulation on your computer. It’s basically a one-man job, Andrew Warkentinan OS developer and historian who has been slowly building his own OS icons since 2003.

This library covers almost the entire history of computers since 1948 A son of Manchesterthe first stored computer program, to the first build of Android since 2011. Unsurprisingly, there is many unknown OSes in it, including many versions of DOS, MOS for Acorn BBC Master, and several favorite OSes NitroOS-9which brings more modern features to the ’80s Tandy Radio Shack CoCo line.

The images are usually not loaded with software beyond what would be included with the OS (think calculators, file managers, and text editors), so they are limited out of the box, and getting your hands on CTSS software can be difficult. But if you want to relive the glory days of Windows 95this is a solid bet.

Just be warned, the Virtual OS Museum is huge download. The full version with all images included is 127GB when zipped. Even the Lite edition, which downloads images on demand, weighs in at 14GB.