{"id":729,"date":"2025-04-04T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/?page_id=729"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:24:53","slug":"external-links-and-references","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/external-links-and-references\/","title":{"rendered":"External Links and References"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphr.com\/life-culture\/1006121\/ibm-s-hursley-museum-is-a-homage-to-technology-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Review of the museum in 2017 by Alan Martin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/loans-to-the-royal-hamphire-county-hospital\/\">The Royal Hampshire County Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\/revolution\/mainframe-computers\/7\/161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Computer History Museum Mainframe Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.righto.com\/2015\/03\/a-database-of-sms-cards-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ken Shirriffs blog on SMS cards<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.righto.com\/sms\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IBM SMS card database<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ibm-header-back-color\">The IBM Lectern &#8211; An IBM Special Product<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedocket.appellatecourtclerks.org\/uncategorized\/the-remarkable-space-age-lectern-of-the-louisiana-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Remarkable Space-Age Lectern at the Louisiana Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ibm-header-back-color\">Moving a System\/360 Mainframe<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clockworkremovals.co.uk\/case-studies\/business-relocation\/case-study-relocating-an-ibm-s-360-mainframe-system-for-national-museums-scotland-nms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is their story. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; An IBM Special Product During the summer of 2024, Raffi Melkonian, an appellate lawyer based in Houston, Texas, argued a case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-729","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/729\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibmhursleymuseum.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}