The museum at IBM’s Hursley Park location exists to help preserve IBM’s historical heritage.. It contains various artefacts developed at the IBM Hursley lab and also other hardware from the company’s beginnings through to the PC and PS/2 eras and beyond. Staff on-site can visit the museum at any time and customer groups are often shown around the Museum during visits to the Executive Briefing Centre. Due to its location inside the IBM development laboratory, the Museum is not open to the general public.
Hursley’s Museum is located throughout several rooms on the lower ground floor of Hursley House.
The Origins of IBM are spread over the first two rooms, one covering Punch Card technology – the T in CTR (Computing Tabulating & Recording Company), the original name of IBM, and the other in the south end of the Hursley room, time clocks, recorders and pre-IBM computing – the C & R.
The Hursley room is dedicated to products developed by the Laboratory and displays the few artefacts that still survive. It includes a model of the 2984 Cash Issuing Terminal first installed at Lloyds bank, reflecting Hursley’s participation in the development of the original Automated Teller Machine (ATM).
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