Visual History
UI Timeline
Forty years of interfaces — from the blinking cursor of a BASIC prompt to the fluid gestures of iOS 11. A horizontal journey through the screens that shaped how humans and machines learned to talk to each other.
Sound & Music
The SID Chip
The MOS 6581 — the sound chip inside the Commodore 64 that accidentally became a musical instrument. How three oscillators, a filter, and a programmer's creativity inspired a generation of musicians and gave birth to the chiptune scene still alive today.
Hardware
Curiosity about the 1st iPod
What made the iPod possible — the tiny Toshiba drive that Jon Rubinstein discovered in Japan, and the miniaturisation journey from the Macintosh Classic to the iPod mini.
Hardware
The Processor Wars
Three chips, three eras, one story — from the $25 MOS 6502 that launched the home computer revolution, to the elegant Motorola 68000 inside the first Mac, to the dominant Intel 486 that standardised the PC world.
Apple · Vision
Evolution and Vision
Four objects, four eras, one idea — how the Macintosh Classic, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad each redefined what a computer can be, where it lives, and how it disappears into human life.
Data & Hardware
Computing Power
From 0.5 MIPS to 185,000 MIPS in 38 years — an interactive chart of the processing power of every machine in the collection. Toggle between single-core and multi-core to see how parallelism changed computing.
Design · Apple
The Art of Removing Things
Five machines, one philosophy — how the PowerBook G4 Ti, the MacBook Pro Unibody, the MacBook Air, the iPad and the iPad Air 2 each advanced the same idea: making a better computer by taking things away.
Apple · Hardware
The PowerPC Years
1994–2006 — the impossible alliance between Apple, IBM and Motorola that challenged Intel for twelve years. Four machines from the collection tell the story from beginning to end.
Beyond the Collection
Stories Beyond My Little Museum
Stories that go beyond the objects in this collection — but always connected to the world of computing and the history that shaped it. Threads that reach further, into the broader story of how technology changed everything.