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An account of the research carried out by Graham Briscoe to discover the copyright holder for the John Simmons book LEO and the Manager and the successful transfer of publication rights to the LEO Computers Society. Resurrection, Issue Number 85, Spring 2019, pp. 25-26. The LEO archive in Dropbox includes three documents including a letter from Stuart MacNab, Director J. & Co. dated 28th January 2019, addressed to Peter Byford chair of LEO Computers Society , confirming the transfer of intellectual property rights of documents relating to LEO I to LEO ComputersSociety. 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9e2er7hfs4d2a6u/Graham%20Briscoe%20re%20Lyons %20System.docx?dl=0 and https://www.leo-computers.org.uk/images/Leo%20Newsletter%20Spring%202019.pdf LEO Matters, Vol. 5,

Briscoe, G, (2019), LEO and the Managers: Unearthing its ownership, Read More »

This a was written by Tom Brooks, who joined LEO as a programmer in June 1963 working on several projects on the Post Office contract including Stores, Telephone Billing, P O Statistics, PO Savings Bank. The article reports on the project using the Post Office LEO machines to produce a Braille system to be used by blind programmers. The successful project was involved the Post Office, the RNIB and LEO personnel and was launched in response to the agreement between the Post Office and EELM for EELM to support Post Office ‘social’ applications.

Brooks, T., (2021), LEO, A Pioneer of Computing for Persons with Disabilities, to be published in LEO Matters.  Read More »

paper published in Journal of Information Technology. Part 1 and 2 published online June 5, 2020 Research Article. and accepted for publication over two issues in 2020 Part 1 Part 1 in print version, Vol. 35, issue 4, pages 361 – 375, A ‘conversation’ between Frank Land (FL) and Antony Bryant (AB): PART I – Antony Bryant, Frank Land, 2020 (sagepub.com)
Part 2 in Vol. 36, issue1 pages 39 -55, March 2021. A ‘conversation’ between Frank Land [FL] and Antony Bryant [AB] – : Part 2 – Antony Bryant, Frank Land, 2021 (sagepub.com)
Reprinted as a selected paper in Schlagwein, D. (Editor, December, Thirty-Five Years of the Journal of Information Technology. To celebrate this, the editors have selected and made open access JIT sample papers across the years via a special collection: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jin/35yearsjit

Bryant, A., Land, F.F., (2020, 2021), A Conversation between Frank Land and Antony Bryant, Read More »

paper published in Journal of Information Technology. Part 1 and 2 published online June 5, 2020 Research Article. and accepted for publication over two issues in 2020 Part 1 Part 1 in print version, Vol. 35, issue 4, pages 361 – 375, A ‘conversation’ between Frank Land (FL) and Antony Bryant (AB): PART I – Antony Bryant, Frank Land, 2020 (sagepub.com)
Part 2 in Vol. 36, issue1 pages 39 -55, March 2021. A ‘conversation’ between Frank Land [FL] and Antony Bryant [AB] – : Part 2 – Antony Bryant, Frank Land, 2021 (sagepub.com)
Reprinted as a selected paper in Schlagwein, D. (Editor, December, Thirty-Five Years of the Journal of Information Technology. To celebrate this, the editors have selected and made open access JIT sample papers across the years via a special collection: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/jin/35yearsjit

Bryant, A., Land, F.F., (2020, 2021), A Conversation between Frank Land and Antony Bryant, Read More »