About the seminar

International Business Machines (IBM) dominated the computer industry for almost all of the first 40 years. And yet the Computer Conservation Society rarely accords IBM the attention that this remarkable achievement merits, despite so much of IBM's development having taken place in the UK. Very much "the elephant in the room" then.

Today we have an opportunity to make up the deficit. The centrepiece of this visit to IBM's UK Development Centre at Hursley Park will be two lectures "An Introduction to the IBM Hursley Museum." (Peter Short) "The Years at Hursley Park" (David Key). There will also be a guided tour of the wonderful IBM Museum in the basement of Hursley House and a tour of the house and grounds (weather permitting). A light lunch will be provided so there will be a modest £12 charge for the visit. We expect the visit to end at around 16:00.

Unfortunately, owing to circumstances beyond our control the previously advertised lecture "100 Years of IBM." cannot now take place. We offer our apologies for this omission and hope that the revised programme will be found equally interesting.

Hursley Park is, of course, a working site and, not unreasonably, IBM have asked us for an advance list of attendees. The visit must therefore be pre-booked using the facilities kindly provided by the BCS at https://events.bcs.org/book/105/. Numbers are limited to 50 places, so early booking is recommended.