Hewlett-Packard
From scientific RPN calculators to long-lived engineering platforms.
Open brand history →Company histories
Major manufacturers and platform owners in the museum story
Each page marks what is playable now and what belongs to the wider historical lineage.
Texas Instruments
Calculators, 16-bit home computers and the classroom graphing ecosystem.
Open brand history →Commodore / MOS / Amiga
Vertical integration, aggressive pricing and custom silicon.
Open brand history →Apple
From the Apple II ecosystem to the Macintosh graphical platform.
Open brand history →IBM
The PC architecture that escaped its inventor and became an industry standard.
Open brand history →Atari
Custom video hardware from the VCS through 8-bit computers, ST and beyond.
Open brand history →Sinclair
Minimal hardware, radical pricing and a huge British software culture.
Open brand history →Acorn
Education, elegant 6502 systems and the birth of ARM personal computing.
Open brand history →Amstrad
Integrated 8-bit packages, word processors and inexpensive PC compatibles.
Open brand history →Casio
Pocket BASIC, graphing leadership and C-language handhelds.
Open brand history →Sharp
Pocket computers, LCD engineering and a wider Japanese computer lineage.
Open brand history →Epson
Portable computing as a complete battery-powered appliance.
Open brand history →Nintendo
Platform control, battery-conscious handhelds and durable compatibility.
Open brand history →Sega
From Z80 consoles to 16-bit dominance and ambitious 3D systems.
Open brand history →Palm
Instant-on personal information management before the smartphone.
Open brand history →Microsoft
Software standards that became hardware platforms.
Open brand history →Tandy / Radio Shack
Retail distribution, TRS-80 compatibility and practical portable computing.
Open brand history →Sony
MSX computing, optical media and the PlayStation reset.
Open brand history →NEC
The Japanese PC mainstream that Western histories often omit.
Open brand history →Psion
From organiser to pocket office and the EPOC smartphone lineage.
Open brand history →Some of the most important “brands” were not manufacturers at all.
Personal computing repeatedly escaped individual companies. CP/M let 8080 and Z80 software move across incompatible machines; MSX defined a multi-vendor home-computer standard; IBM PC compatibility became larger than IBM; DOS and later Windows became targets independent of one hardware badge. The museum therefore keeps platform history beside manufacturer history.
Important machines outside the current emulator set
The brand pages mention many of them in context. Across the industry, future candidates include the MITS Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080, TRS-80 Model I/III/4 and Model 100, Osborne 1, Kaypro II, Dragon 32, Oric-1/Atmos, Sinclair QL, Apple Lisa and IIGS, Acorn Archimedes, Amiga 1000/1200, Atari Falcon, Psion Organiser/Series 3/5, NEC PC-88/PC-98, NeXT Computer, SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, PlayStation, Saturn, Dreamcast and many others. They are part of the museum's historical map even when there is no launch button yet.