Chapter 5: Early Business Computing, pages 106 – 107 provide an account of the LEO story including a review of the legacy of LEO and a picture of a Lyons teashop on page 108. Published by Sage Publications India PVT Ltd, New Delhi, and by Sage Publications Inc in Thousand Oaks, California, and by Sage Publications Ltd, London. See more at Coventry University
Tebbo. The book is a type of encyclopaedia including a wide range of technology topics each supplemented by a rich set of references. A short, well sourced, chapter on LEO, page 50-56, is included.
Pelican.
The author notes LEO among the pioneers and provides a brief account of the LEO story. See more at Google Books
Rose, Michael (1969) ‘Computers, Managers and Society’ Read More »
Andrews UK Limited. The book is Dame Shirley’s autobiography and as such deals with much more than her involvement with IT and the establishment of Freelance Programmers. It is included in this listing because the formation of F. International, overlaps the foundation and growth of LEO Computers and provides a further perspective on developments in that period. It also notes the help given to her by Kit Grindley (see obituaries below) in the early days of her company. See more
Shirley, Stephanie, (2012), ‘Let IT Go’ Read More »
Hardcover’, Digital Press, March 16, 1981. Pages 148 -151 report on the precedence of the LEO initiative in the development of business computing. See more at Google Books
Stern, Nancy B. (1981) ‘From ENIAC to UNIVAC: Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers Read More »
Kendal Hunt publishers. The publication is about the relationship between ideas (philosophy, Christianity) and art/technology. The intended readership is graphic design students, but is also used a general education class for some
students. Chapter 10, The Computer, Animation, & Gaming includes a photo of LEO I and a brief account of the building of the first business computer by J. Lyons &
Co. The author, Ron Sumner is an artist a Professor at Liberty University in Florida. Available to Purchase
in ‘Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communications Technology’, Vol. 387, Springer, November 2012. Chapter 2, Frank Land, Remembering LEO, pp. 22-42. See more at Springer Link
Arcturus Publishing , London, includes a section on the Lyons/LEO place in the story of computing, and includes photo of LEO, Chapter 6, pages 106 to 110. Sir Dermot Turing is a nephew of Alan Turing, and 12 Baronet Turing. The book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the story of computing from abacus to a glimpse of how the story might develop in the future. See more
Turing, Dermot, (2018), The Story of Computing Read More »
MIT Press, History of Computing Series, In his chapter on EDSAC he talks about Lyons, starting with a visit to Cambridge by TRT and others in July 1947, mentioning George Booth, the £3,000 donation and loan of Lenaerts and ending with Lyons’ appointment of John Pinkerton, pages 132 – 134 .
4 pages archived at LCS Website
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Wilkes, M.V., (1985), Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer Read More »