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Vintageterminals.io

a bootable museum of vintage OSes (13 so far)

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HN · launched Feb 13, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views

Niche: software and system emulators · 114 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -70% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical SaaS
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The website and xterm.js terminal integration are very simple to vibe-code, but compiling and configuring accurate low-level hardware emulators (like PDP-11, x86) into WebAssembly along with historic OS disk images requires deep systems emulation expertise.

What it would actually take: The web frontend uses WebAssembly builds of open-source emulators such as SIMH (for PDP-11 / Unix v4) or v86 / DOSBox (for MS-DOS and early Linux). The challenging part is compiling legacy C/C++ emulator codebases with Emscripten, configuring virtualized serial interfaces and storage devices, and obtaining/formatting authentic bootable disk images with proper tty/VT100 terminal mappings.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Concerns raised: Bugs and rough edges acknowledged by author

Feature requests: Wire up period software downloads for remaining OS systems, Add more vintage operating systems beyond current 13

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2337 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2131 of 2338 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 105 days after the earliest competitor.

  • retro-icons · github · 2026-10-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • Vanilla OS 3 Reunion · hn · 2026-08-24 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • tacit · github · 2026-10-17 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • hobby-os · github · 2026-10-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • ember · github · 2026-09-13 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • dev-palmos · github · 2026-10-15 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • personal-os-starter · github · 2026-09-11 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.57

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