Hardware Products Developed at Hursley
The museum is attempting to create a definitive list of products developed at Hursley. The following is an incomplete pass from the knowledge of the curators with some additional help from IBM retirees. If you are able to provide any new information or corrections to the existing data, please contact info@ibmhursleymuseum.info. There is a comprehensive list of all IBM hardware and software on Wikipedia.
| Year | Code Name | Machine Type / Product Name | Department | Description |
| 62TM | Storage | Disk drive; 10MB version of 62GV Gulliver | ||
| Tilt, lift, rotate stands for monitors - 2 models | ||||
| SUPPAC | ||||
| 3693 | Data Acquisition System for nuclear power station at Latina, Italy | |||
| 8502 | Monitors | Monitor | ||
| 9514 | Monitors | Monitor (Henley follow-on) | ||
| Excelsior | Dataflow chip | |||
| 7487 ?? | Special Engineering | Daisy wheel printer, thought to have used 3774 (Qume) mechanics and 3287 electronics. | ||
| 3277GA | Special Engineering | Graphics Attach - developed in Poughkeepsie, 'productised' in Hursley. Attached a Tektronix 4000 x 3000 storage display to 3277. | ||
| Pine | Monitors | 14" colour monitor | ||
| Europine | Monitors | 14" colour monitor - Philips Tube | ||
| C40 | 14" colour monitor (Infowindow) | |||
| Lilliput | Storage Products | First 8" disk drive developed in Hursley. Became Piccolo. | ||
| Expressway | Monitors | XGA Adapter | ||
| Titanic | Monitors | Replacement for 3250 | ||
| Spacemont | Monitors | Spacemont (a portmanteau of Space Mountain at Disney World being the highest point in Florida) was a project between Hursley and Boca to develop a follow-on to the VGA PC graphics adapter. However, it fell foul of compatibility and cost issues and was canned after 6 months in favour of an extension of the VGA (called rather unexcitingly the XGA). The processor and pixel engine were the starting point for Image Adapter, and the pixel engine was the starting point for the drawing engine of XGA. In collaberation with IBM Research, Yorktown, the simulator created to test the Spacemont VLSI before manufacture, General B, was also used effectively on Image Adapter development. |
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| ActionMedia II | 8514 adapter | Monitors | Adapter card for 8514 - PC-AT bus | |
| SPD2 | Analogue / digital converter chip | |||
| 1960 | 832 | Electronic Typing Calculator for billing & accounting operations | ||
| 1961 | SCAMP | Processor Systems | Scientific Computer and Modulator Processor - first to use microprogramme control | |
| 1961 | LATINA | 3963 | Data Acquisition System | |
| 1961 | 832 | Electronic Typing Calculator | ||
| 1962 | TROS | Processor Systems | Transformer read-only storage for S/360-20 and -40 - Charles Owen, Matt Taub, Will Warwick | |
| 1962 | BC ROS | Storage Products | Balanced Capacitor Read Only Storage | |
| 1964 | S/360 Model 40 | Processor Systems | ||
| 1964-66 | FINDS | Fast Inductive Non-Destructive Store - The China Shop | ||
| 1964-66 | 3940 | Data Terminal Models 5 & 5a | ||
| 1966 | S/360 Model 44 | Processor Systems | ||
| 1966 | MICA | Storage Products | Magnetic Thin-Film Storage to replace ferrite cores & copper wire. 10" (25cm) copper plate with thin film deposits to form memory cells. | |
| 1966 | LSI | Building Computer Logic into Regular Arrat of Cells on Memory | ||
| 1966 | FINDS | Fast Inductive Non Destructive Store | ||
| 1966 | Zenith | Magnetic strips | Storage | Hursley Storage Development's first product. No details other than some small mag stripes in the museum. |
| 1967 | 3980 | Banking system, comprising 3981 Concentrator & 3982 Local / Remote Terminal | ||
| 1967-9 | Functional memory | Processor Systems | A programmable logic array with applications including OCR. Never shipped as too expensive to implement in chip technology of the day. | |
| 1968 | S/360-M40 IMP | Processor Systems | High availability multi processor comprising two S/360-M40 | |
| 1969 | Dolphin | 5444 | Storage Products | Disk drive - 2MB for System/3, System/7 & 3750 switching system |
| 1969 | Schools Computer | |||
| 1970 | Chip Fabrication | Y Block rebuilt as prototype chip fab facility | ||
| 1970 | Development of Physically Smaller DP Systems | |||
| 1970 | FINNLOAD | Automated Airline Check-in & Balance System for Finnair | ||
| 1970 | Multiple Terminal Communications Adapter | |||
| 1970 ? | CUZPAK | Processor Systems | Chip cooling system - Dave Cuzner | |
| 1971 | C86-SYS | S/370 Model 135 | Processor Systems | With DAT memory translator |
| 1971 | 5967 M04 | VDU to Meet Marketing Requirement for 2790 DCS | ||
| 1971 - 1974 | Industry Systems (Government) | Industry Systems | Mapping, Surface Transportation (Railway ticketing), Banking | |
| 1972 | CashPoint | 2984 | Lloyds Bank ATM | |
| 1972 | Future Systems | FS/1 aka FS/A | Processor Systems | Radical alternative to S/370 architecture using single level store - Hursley, Boeblingen and others joint effort, Hursley participation ended 1972, cancelled 1975 at architectural stage. Some principles incorporated into S/38, AS/400, System I and i5 OS. |
| 1973 | 5941-H02 | Special Engineering | Console | |
| 1973 | Gulliver | 62GV | Storage Products | 5 / 10 / 14MB for 3600, 3650, 3660, 3790, 3730, System/32, System/34; 10 & 14MB = 62TM. |
| 1974 | 5985-H02 | Special Engineering | Colour display control unit | |
| 1974 | LSI + Programme SIGMA | |||
| 1974 | 3790 | Communication System | ||
| 1974 | 3790 RPQ | Special Engineering | Increased disk storage with added cabinets and Winchester disk drives (believed to be 10MB each). Final configuration 3x bigger than base product. | |
| 1975 | Sprat / Bluegill | Storage Products | 4.6MB 6" removable floppy disk drive, but with flying heads. Moved to Boulder Jan 78 then Tucson May 78 as Bluegill. Project ended late 1979. Design picked up by ex-IBMers who set up Iomega and developed it into a product. | |
| 1975 | RVG | Special Engineering | Raster-vector display - converted vectors to raster display. Did not become a product, possibly due to very high memory costs | |
| 1976-78 | Special Engineering | 3278 extra character support for Iceland, Yugoslavia & Turkey. | ||
| 1976-78 | Special Engineering | Right to left language support for 3278 - Arabic & Hebrew. | ||
| 1977 | 5937-H02 | Special Engineering | Layout display terminal (Japan) | |
| 1977 | Cromwell | 3250 | WSD | Graphics display system (Mono) using directed-beam CRT for CADCAM which IBM bought from Sanders. |
| 1977 | 36HU | Industry Systems | Graphics & mapping system | |
| 1978 | 3730 | Industry Systems | Distributed office communication system | |
| 1978 | Microlink | Product Test / Product Assurance | Bi-polar microprocessor based test tool, attached to mainframe via ANR; used for testing display controllers etc. | |
| 1978 | HACIENDA | Special Engineering | Hursley Advanced Colour Image Enhancement Display - a one-off for Madrid Science Centre. Colour display with custom built-in high speed algorithmic processing for analysis of satellite images | |
| 1978 | Bourgogne | 7416 | Special Engineering | Cheque sorter for Lloyds |
| 1979 | Wizard | 3279 | WSD | Colour Display Terminal incorporating digital convergence logic for RGB CRT beams rather than analogue. Displayed business graphics using character graphics hardware & GDDM mainframe software. |
| 1979 | 3287-C | WSD | Colour version of 3287 printer | |
| 1979 | Piccolo | 62PC | Storage Products | 64MB disk drive used in 3310 DASD & 8100, S/34, S/38, 5520.Used the swinging arm developed in Hursley and for the first time a stack of 6 x 8" platters. |
| 1979 | Hotspur | 8775 | WSD | Mono display for 8100 system - ability to download functionality from host (Basic, WP etc). First IBM display to use a microprocessor (Motorola 6800) rather than hard-wired logic. |
| 1981 | Parrot | 3278/2 | WSD | 3278 Talking Terminal. Used a 6800 microprocessor & voice output card from Talking Selectric. |
| 1981 | Vanguard | Graphics Advanced Development | Precursor to Valiant | |
| 1981 / 82 | Valiant | Graphics Advanced Development | a graphics sub-system that attached to an IBM PC and was intended as a follow-on to 3250 (Cromwell) and 3279. It featured two processor cards, GXP (to process high-level graphics orders) and PXP (the Pixel processor, which was hardware-assist to draw the image) The state-of-the-art 4- bit slice processor AMD2900 provided 16-bit processing on both cards. Never announced, possibly due to cost. | |
| 1982 | Pearl | 3179 | Monitors | 14" colour monitor for Fujisawa developed 3179 |
| 1982 | 7361 | Graphics System | ||
| 1983 | Rover | 3290 | WSD | Gas panel display terminal with four logical screens |
| 1983 | Pearl-G | 3179-G | Graphics version of 3179 (managed by Fujisawa) | |
| 1984 | Aragon | 3270PC-G | WSD | 3270 Graphics - control unit + 14" monitor. Controller IBM-PC with graphics adapter. |
| 1984 | Genoa | 3270-PC-GX | WSD | 3270 Graphics - control unit + 19" colour + mono monitors. Controller IBM-PC with graphics adapter using Motorola 68000 processor at 8MHz then 10MHz. |
| 1984 | Simulator & Matchbox | Storage Products | DASD servo etc simulation system | |
| 1984 | Swallow | 62SW | Storage Products | 130MB disk drive |
| 1984 | Falcon | 62FN | Storage Products | Servo mechanism / HDA (Count Key Data Interface) for 9335-B01 (Kestrel) |
| 1984 | Cotswold | Graphics chip. Cotswold I was the basis of an RPQ to State Farm Insurance (1986?). Cotswold II used in PS/2 Image Adapter /A. | ||
| 1985 | EMC | F Block Electromagnetic Compatibility testing facility | ||
| 1986 | Kestrel | 9335 | Storage Products | Direct access storage sub-system for S/38 - 850MB per drive, up to 8 per sub-system. Unusual configuration - 2 actuators which could seek independently.
9335-A01 controller transferred to Hursley July 1994. |
| 1986 | Moonshine | 4691 | WSD | Programmable cash terminal - leisure industry |
| 1986 | Sphinx | Special Engineering | LCD Projector using novel electrochromic display technology based on organic compound called Viologen. Display chip contained poisonous Thallium. Solution also etched underlying silicon, so barrier needed. Reliability was low. Lost out to Liquid Crystal. | |
| 1986 | Aston Martin | Aragon follow-on, using CMOS to replace PC-AT in base unit. Never announced. | ||
| 1986 | Lagonda | Genoa follow-on using CMOS to package computing into base unit in place of the PC-AT. Never announced. | ||
| 1987 | Conestoga | 8513 | Monitors | 12" VGA / MCGA PS/2 monitor (white box version) |
| 1987 | Crown | 8512 | Monitors | 14" VGA PS/2 monitor (white box version) |
| 1987 | Henley | 8514 | Monitors | 16" PS/2 monitor - black box Matsushita interlaced |
| 1987 | Passfield | X.25 adapter card | WSD | |
| 1987 | Heron | Storage Products | ||
| 1987 | Surrey | 8503 | Monitors | Monitor |
| 1987 | Harp / Heron | Storage Products | Servo mechanism | |
| 1987 | 8514/A | Video adapter card for 8514 monitor | ||
| 1987 | PS/2 Image Adapter/A | Combined video display and (optional) printer adapter supporting virtually all IBM PC monitors at the time, and a number of 3rd party image printers. Used CMOS-2 chip developed at Hursley (Cotswold II) | ||
| 1988 | 8507 | Monitors | 19" Mono Monitor | |
| 1988 | 8604 | Monitors | Monitor | |
| 1988 | Fastnet | WSD | ISDN adapter for PC. [ | |
| 1988 | 8505 | Monitors | Monitor | |
| 1989 | Chicago | 8506 | Monitors | 17" mono monitor (high resolution portrait) |
| 1989 | 8508 | Monitors | 19" mono monitor | |
| 1989 | Skyway | Display adapter card | ||
| 1989-90 | Solent | PS/2 ISDN Adapter | WSD | Two 64 kbp/s channel ISDN adapter for PS/2 microchannel systems |
| 1989-90 | Hamble | PC ISDN Adapter | WSD | Two 64 kbp/s channel ISDN adapter for PC ISA bus systems |
| 1990 | Redwing | 0681 | Storage Products | 0.857 / 1.06 GB 5.1/4" HDD with PRML recording - unusual linear actuator. Used in AS/400 servers and 9333. |
| 1990 | Dallas | 8515 | Monitors | 14" Colour display (white box) |
| 1990 | Prescott | 8516 | Monitors | 14" Monitor - touch sensitive version of 8515 |
| 1990 | Osprey | Storage | Early development hard drive that became Redwing. | |
| 1991 | Seattle | 8504 | Monitors | 12" FST Monitor (flat square tube) |
| 1991 | Orleans | 9515 | Monitors | Touch screen version of Prescott - 14" black box - started Hursley, announced Greenock |
| 1991 | Harrier | 9333 | Storage Products | One of first serial interface disks to attach up to 8 RS/6000 to 1 - 4 drive enclosures. Each enclosure had a controller & 4 Redwings. Point to point serial links ran at 8MB/s and later evolved into SSA.
Development programme Feb 1990 - Apr 1994. Harrier controller Sep 1992. |
| 1991 | Anaheim | 8518 | Monitors | 14" VGA version of 8515 |
| 1992 | Daytona | 8517 | Monitors | 17" VGA colour monitor - black box Sony high resolution |
| 1992 | Daytona-Prime | 9517 | Monitors | 7" Daytona update SXGA interlaced (started Hursley, announced Greenock) |
| 1992 | 9518 | Monitors | 14" XGA72 monitor (white box) (started Hursley, announced Greenock) | |
| 1992 | PC-Radio - Radio & Modem | Hursley managed the radio and modem for EMEA, including homologation | ||
| 1992-93 | Allicat | Storage | SSA hard disk. 8 MB/s July 1992, 20 MB/s May 1993. | |
| 1993 | Woodwind | 3310 | Storage Products | Piccolo disk drive enclosure (Total 256MB) |
| 1993 | Flotilla | Storage Products | 20MB flexible disk - project abandoned | |
| 1993 | Scupper / Missfire / Nauticat | Storage | SSA disk drive development project | |
| 1995 | 7133 - SSAbre / Model 10 | Storage Products | Serial disk system - 4U rack-mounted enclosure with 16 3.5 | |
| 1995 | Mayflower | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | MicroChannel JBOD adapter for 1 - 8 RS/6000 servers |
| 1995 | Concord | PCI JBOD Adapter | Storage Products | For 1-9 RS/6000 servers. Followed on from Mayflower adapter when RS/6000 changed from microchannel to PCI bus. |
| 1995-97 | Los Gatos | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | MicroChannel RAID adapter for a single PC server |
| 1996 | 7133 SSAbre2 / Model 20 | Storage Products | Added 4 SSA Node Bypass modules to improve system reliability by automatically bypassing adapters which are powered-off. | |
| 1996 | Saratoga | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | MicroChannel RAID adapter for a single RS/6000 server |
| 1996 | Trojan | Storage | Laredo evaluation board | |
| 1997 | Beaulieu | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | PCI RAID adapter for a single RS/6000 server |
| 1997 | Fremont | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | MicroChannel RAID adapter for 1 - 8 RS/6000 servers |
| 1997 | Campbell | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | PCI RAID adapter for 1 - 8 RS/6000 servers |
| 1998 | 7133 Coral / Model 40 | Storage Products | Added support for 40 MB/s SSA with the Santa Cruz adapter. | |
| 1998 | Sonoma | Storage Products | Optical extender for 20 or 40 MB/s SSA links over distances of 10 kM | |
| 1999 | Santa Cruz | SSA Adapter for 7133 | Storage Products | PCI 40 MB/s SSA RAID adapter for 1 - 8 RS/6000 servers - also used in the Tarpon and VTS controllers from Tucson |
| 1999-2001 | Lepe / Lepeahead | Storage | FC-AL adapter card based on Santa Cruz. Never shipped, superseded by Arrowhead | |
| 2000 - 2004 | Arrowhead | Storage Products | PCI RAID adapter for 2Gb/s FC-AL drives. It was a component of the Megamouth/DS8000 enterprise controller developed in Tucson. Based on the Santa Cruz RAID code and the Excelsior dataflow chip developed by Hursley. | |
| 2001 | Brooklyn | Storage Products | An interposer which converted a standard SCSI drive to SSA so that it could be used in 7133 | |
| 2003 | Lodestone | 2145 | Storage Products | SAN Volume Controller - storage virtualisation appliance for FC and iSCSI SANs - hardware based on System x servers, the Hursley-developed code currently supports remote copy, caching, FlashCopy, thin provisioning and online data migration. |
| 2009 | Dorinda | Storage Products | Follow-on PCI Express RAID adapter using the Aurora dataflow chip and 8Gb/s FC-AL. Aurora was jointly developed by Hursley and San Jose. Dorinda is used in the latest DS8800 controllers. | |
| 2010 | Thunderbird / Oxford | Storwize V7000 | Storage Products | Mid-range SAN-attached storage system. It is based on the Hursley SVC and RAID code. The hardware is designed and manufactured by Xyratex. |
| 2011 | Storwize V7000U | Storage Products | Mid-range unified storage controller which supports SAN and NAS protocols. It consists of 2 SONAS nodes in front of a V7000. | |
| 2012 | Storwize V3500 & V3700 | Storage Products | Entry versions of the V7000. The hardware is designed and manufactured by Celestica. |