Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

The Virtual OS Museum

The Virtual OS Museum is a curated, pre-installed collection of over 1,700 operating systems and standalone applications spanning the entire history of stored-program computing, from the Manchester Baby of 1948 to the present day.

^{Andrew Warkentin (The Virtual OS Museum)}