IBM

Hursley Museum

External Links and References

Review of the museum in 2017 by Alan Martin

The Royal Hampshire County Hospital

The Computer History Museum Mainframe Page

Ken Shirriffs blog on SMS cards

IBM SMS card database

The IBM Lectern – An IBM Special Product

During the summer of 2024, Raffi Melkonian, an appellate lawyer based in Houston, Texas, argued a case at the Louisiana Supreme Court, where he discovered an IBM Lectern, similar to that used by President John F Kennedy when he presented the case for the Apollo Programme to send astronauts to the Moon. Curators at the Hursley Museum were delighted to help with the background research.

The Remarkable Space-Age Lectern at the Louisiana Supreme Court

Moving a System/360 Mainframe

The Curators are indebted to the team from Clockwork Removals and Storage in Edinburgh for their help in September 2025 in moving a 1960s System/360 mainframe and peripherals from the National Museums of Scotland to the Hursley Museum near Winchester, Hants.

This is their story.