Acquisition history
Turok: the development workstations
A story of development hardware, its journey into the collection, and its planned public display.
ExploreA museum of technical computing
Workstations,
software, and
the people who
used them.
Computers, software, photographs, and records that show how people used technical systems.
Explore the exhibitions →ATX Computer Museum · Central TexasFlorence, Texas · Opening planned February 2027 →
01 / Exhibitions
Start with a story.
Explore the machines through their histories, software, and the people who used them.
Pakistan · 1990s
Networks Before the Web
How schools, organizations, and software shared information across scheduled connections in 1990s Pakistan.
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Workstations in use
Working with SGI
SGI workstations with the software, displays, and working environments that gave them purpose.
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Provenance · Seattle
Paul Allen's SOL-20
A Processor Technology SOL-20 from Paul Allen’s collection, previously displayed at Living Computers in Seattle.
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Handheld computing · Pakistan
Sirius: a handheld from Lahore
A handheld designed and built in Lahore, with surviving software and records of its development.
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SGI · provenance
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park Indigo
An SGI Indigo Elan presented by Silicon Graphics to Steven Spielberg during the production of Jurassic Park.
Explore02 / Selected machines
From the collection
03 / Software in use
The Once and Future
Offline Web
Interflex was built for a network that did not stay connected. While online, I selected files and information to request; UUCP carried the queue during an exchange, and the results were waiting on the next call. It offered a different way to find information: request it, wait for the exchange, and read the result later.
Watch Interflex →Collection notes · Amir Husain
Why these machines are here
At UT Austin in 1998, I used SGI O2s in the computer science labs. The Unix environment was very different from the DOS PC I had used at home. That experience is one reason there are so many SGIs in this collection.
Our story →Visit
Florence, Texas
Public opening planned for February 2027.
166 Novi Rd, Florence, Texas.
The people behind the machines
A signed National Instruments advertisement opens a gallery of Austin builders: James Truchard, Michael Dell, Richard Garriott, and Bob Metcalfe. Explore the ideas that connect laboratory instruments, personal computers, imagined worlds, and networks.