Hello, Juhan!

Our goal is to let future generations vividly experience the early history of Estonian computing — the legendary 1990s school computer JUKU must remain usable even in the year 3000!

Although thousands of physical JUKUs were produced between 1988–1992, today it is easier to experience JUKU through an emulator running on an ordinary computer or even in a web browser.

This site collects a wide range of JUKU-related documentation and other materials, but the underlying reason for its existence is the desire to run the various JUKU models on modern hardware — that is, to "emulate" them.

If you have no idea what JUKU is, it's time to take a look at Wikipedia, the Estonian Museum of Electronics, or to get acquainted with our JUKU timeline. An illustrated overview of the JUKU software ecosystem is given in the slides from the 2024 autumn study session of the Estonian Informatics Olympiad.

The JUKU emulation initiative under the name JUKU 3000 was launched in the autumn of 2017 as part of the Garage48 hackathon "Experiences and Expositions".

Important links:

• Arti Zirk's JUKU materials
• The important JUKU thread on the ELFA forum
• The Museum of Electronics JUKU files and software gallery
• Extremely useful Juku E5101 thread on the ZX forum (in Russian)
• JUKU 3000 GitHub repository (the raw material and history of this site)

Related initiatives:

• Museum of Electronics
• University of Tartu Computer Museum
• Tallinn Computer Museum
• Retroklubi/Retrocomputing Estonia
• LVLup! video game museum
• Dreams and reality. Childhood in the 90s (exhibition at the Tartu Toy Museum)
• Let's play?! Computer games from France and Germany (Kumu computer game exhibition)
• RAM. Early Estonian computer art (Kumu computer graphics exhibition)
• Examples of early Estonian computer art (Tuuli Lepik/Bluecat)
• END IF, or early computer art and the beginning of new media in Estonia 1960–1995 (Tuuli Lepik's master's thesis)
• Discord for Estonian-language games (Pait Gaming and others)
• Kassettilamerit (Finnish abandonware restorers' site)
• Kallion tietokonemuseo (computer museum in Helsinki)
• Finland's first game museum opens in Tampere (computer game museum in Tampere)
• Videospēļu muzejs (computer game museum in Riga)
• Skaitļošanas tehnikas un informātikas muzejs (Computing and Informatics Museum of the University of Latvia in Riga)
• Datoru muzejs (computer museum in Sigulda)
• Музей советских игровых автоматов (Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines in St. Petersburg)