A small museum of personal computers
From the Altair 8800 to the iMac G4 — and a few words about everything since.
Browse by era. Each section starts with a short overview and then lets you look at the machines that defined it — specs, what made them matter, and a photo where one exists on Wikimedia Commons.
Before the PC
1975 – 1981Hobbyist roots: the microcomputer revolution before IBM showed up.
The IBM PC arrives
1981 – 1985An open architecture, a third-party DOS, and a clone industry are born.
AT, 386, 486 — the beige decade begins
1985 – 1993ISA, VGA, IDE, and a generation of beige towers under a generation of desks.
Pentium and multimedia
1993 – 1999CD-ROM, 3D acceleration, dial-up internet, and the war for the clock-speed crown.
The beige fades
2000 – 2010Black towers, laptops, x86-64, and the first signs that the PC era was peaking.
Modern computing at a glance
2010 – todayARM everywhere, the cloud eats the desktop, and AI accelerators take over the budget.
No machines in this section yet — the overview lives on the era page.