An episode of Revolutionaries, a co-production of the Computer History Museum
Silicon Valley and KQED television, Published on Jul 6, 2012 by Computer History.
The subject is the contribution to computing of Sir Maurice Wilkes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DrKQ2isIk&list=UUHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg&index=5&feature=plcp
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Live Chat NOW: LEO, the British computer that roared, 28th June 2013 (see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/live_chat_leo/). Gavin Clarke, editor of The
Register and members of the audience interview Frank and Ralph Land online in real
time. The outcome is rather messy as questions and answers do not come out in a proper
sequence.
UK Computer Heritage
at Google HQ in London 1st July 2013 to celebrate UK contribution to Information and
Communications Technology. Featured the Video commissioned by Google for the 60th
anniversary of LEO held at the Science
Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG7EqWtzeIhXjSD4SdfPx1WQICKZMVcP4
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BBC Magazine. Broadcast August 1st 2013 BBC Radio 4 at 13.45 as part of a 10
episode series by Lucy Kellaway entitled Lucy Kellaway’s History of Office Life and
explores the changes brought about in the office by computers and this episode starts
with a brief review of the LEO story including a photo of LEO I.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23509153
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BBC 4 The I.T. Girls
August 2013, 11.00 am BBC Radio 4. Fronted by Martha Lane-Fox its contributors
include, Mary Coombs, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Ann Moffat and Tilly Blythe. From
the 1950s to the mid-1970s in Britain, many of the pioneers of early computing were
women. This was a highly skilled new world of work providing opportunities that were
often in sharp contrast to the established norms of post-war British life, with new
technology helping drive social change.
Mary Coombs was the first woman to program the world’s first commercially
available business computer: the Lyons LEO. She tells us what it was like to work
on this machine – which was the size of a room.
In 1962 Dame Stephanie Shirley founded a programming company, Freelance
Programmers, which only employed women. She became a very successful figure in
the industry.
Ann Moffat started her career at Kodak in 1959. She programmed the black box
flight recorders for Concorde and wrote missile programmes for Polaris.
The Science Museum’s Keeper of Technologies and Engineering, Dr Tilly Blyth,
explains the significance of her museum’s collection of machines that changed these
women’s lives.
Martha Lane Fox presents the programme. In 1998 she co-founded Lastminute.com,
and become one of the pioneers of the dot com era. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038hfkx
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BBC News Channel: Celebrating the UK’s Computer Pioneers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7521868.stm A Brief account of the role played
by the UK in the development of computers from Bletchley to LEO.
BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2nd November, 2013, 9.00-12.00 am and 7.00- 10.pm. A three
hour compilation of computing history from the BBC radio archives, fronted by Maggie
Philbin at Bletchley Park. The programme started with Charles Babbage, and Ada
Lovelace, went on to Bletchley and the second world war code breaking exploits, then
the LEO story from the Make Hally LEO episode in the four-part story of the Dawn of
Computers (about 20 minutes), Clive Sinclair and the Micro Computer revolution,
Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web, and finally the spread of Social Computing with
Facebook and Twitter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8lxl
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BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2nd November, 2013, 9.00-12.00 am and 7.00- 10.pm. A three
hour compilation of computing history from the BBC radio archives, fronted by Maggie
Philbin at Bletchley Park. The programme started with Charles Babbage, and Ada
Lovelace, went on to Bletchley and the second world war code breaking exploits, then
the LEO story from the Make Hally LEO episode in the four-part story of the Dawn of
Computers (about 20 minutes), Clive Sinclair and the Micro Computer revolution,
Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web, and finally the spread of Social Computing with
Facebook and Twitter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g8lxl
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BBC 1 ONE Show, 13th November, 2014, 7.00 pm – 7.30 pm devoted a section of the
programme to Lyons and the LEO story, with extracts from a LEO film, and
explanations from Peter Bird and Frank Land. It was well edited and presented, lauding
the LEO initiative and stating clearly Lyons’ role in building the world’s first business
compute
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BBC Radio 4: Hidden Histories of the Information Age 23rd October 2014 at 13.45.
Repeated week commencing January 4th with LEO story on 7th January at 9.30 am. One
of six 15 minute programmes, presented by Aleks Krotoski, devoted to specific exhibits
at the new Information Age Gallery which opened on 24th October in the London
Science Museum. The program, on the 23rd of October, told the story of LEO as ushering
in the new age of business computing. It involved interviews with Jessica Bradford from
the Museum (content manager of the new Gallery, Gloria Guy and Frank Land from the
LEO Computers Society, a teashop manageress who had been a user of the original
teashop ordering program and nicely rounded off by Tilly Blyth (who had been largely
instrumental in the making of the new Gallery from concept to final exhibit) from the
Science Museum. Altogether a well-balanced telling of the LEO story and how it fits
into the development of the Information Age. It can be heard on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04m3ftg
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