- Author
- Posted by andreww591, with replies from many commenters
- Published
- 19 May 2026
- Kind
- Hacker News discussion thread, with replies from the project's builder
- Original
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009
- Subject
- Systems and hardware
What it is
Posted by andreww591, with replies from many commenters. The poster is the museum's builder and replies often. The download is a Linux virtual machine that runs old systems in emulators.
What it says
- The author, andreww591, says the vast majority of the systems were downloaded.
- The author says the collection uses well over 150 different emulators.
- The full edition is 121G zipped and 174G unzipped, from the Internet Archive.
- Many commenters ask for a text list of the included systems or a search.
- The author blamed early download failures on a failing server disk. Torrents were then added.
- Commenter jonnyasmar says emulation keeps how old systems look, not how they feel.
- Commenters named systems they could not find. The author often said they are included.
What evidence it gives
The thread has firsthand replies from the builder, with counts and lists of included systems. It also has user anecdotes about old systems and failed downloads. There are no benchmarks. Claims about contents come mostly from the builder's replies.
Interests and limits
The builder is the main source on what the museum holds. No full list was posted in the thread, so coverage is unchecked. Some replies reflect early traffic problems that may since be fixed. The museum and its site were not opened for this page.