From 1948's Manchester Baby to early Android, the Virtual OS museum runs the entire history of computing
TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 08, 2026, 16:40 (IST)
Developer Andrew Warkentin has released The Virtual OS Museum, a Linux VM that boots over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems on a regular laptop. The collection spans 570 distinct OSes across 250-plus platforms, from 1948's Manchester Baby to early Android and ios. A custom launcher handles emulator setup across QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM, with snapshots, offline and lite editions, and installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux.