OBE for Frank Land of LEO fame, http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/
Computer Conservation Society, (2019), Read More »
The LEO story including brief bibliography,
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/early-computer-companies/5/110
Computer History Museum, From Cambridge to Café, Read More »
European Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 12, Issue 4, 241–24. X
Coombs, M. (2003) Review: ‘A Computer called LEO’ (Ferry, G.) Read More »
, BBC Witness History Coombs recalls her work as an early computer programmer on LEO, the first electronic office system, pioneered by the Lyons catering company. In the early 1950s, the leading British catering firm, J Lyons & Co, pioneered the world’s first automated office system. It was baptised LEO – the Lyons Electronic Office – and was used in stock-taking, food ordering and payrolls for the company. Soon it was being hired out to UK government ministries and other British businesses. Mary Coombs worked on the first LEO and was the first woman to become a commercial computer programmer. She tells Mike Lanchin about her memories of those heady days when computers were still in their
infancy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyx55
Coombs, M. and Lanchin, M., (2019), From cakes to computers Read More »
The story of LOLA the consortium of London local authorities who replaced their LEO III with an IBM 360/50 and for whom IBM produced a LEO III emulator to enable them to run legacy systems. LEO Matters, Vol. 5, Spring 2019, pp. 9– 10, Newsletter of the LEO Computers Society,
https://www.leo-computers.org.uk/images/Leo%20Newsletter%20Spring%202019.pdf
Cooper, A., (2018), A Virtual LEO III. Read More »
- Power Point Presentation to IET retired branch, https://www.dropbox.com/home/LEO%20Oral%20History%20project/Copied%20fro m%20old%20Leo%20interviews%20shared%20folder?preview=Cooper+IET+Lecture+2016.ppt
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Cooper, G. (2016) How Lyons Produced the World’s First Large Business Computer, Read More »
Cooper, G. (2016) How Lyons Produced the World’s First Large Business Computer, Power Point Presentation to IET retired branch, https://www.dropbox.com/home/LEO%20Oral%20History%20project/Copied%20from%20old%20Leo%20interviews%20shared%20folder?preview=Cooper+IET+Lecture+2016.ppt
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Martin Cooper interviewsPeter Byford, Neville Lyons and Frank Land members of the LEO Computer Societytell Martin Cooper MBCS RITTech about their memories of a computer, created by acatering company, that revolutionised business computing. Published in ITNowmagazine of British Computer Society May 2020
https://www.bcs.org/content-hub/from-baking-to-business-computing
Cooper, M., (2020) From baking to business computing, Read More »
O’Reilly Strata Conference October 2012 on Big Data. The paper gives an account of the LEO railway distancing job.
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/10/the-great-railway-caper-big-data-in- 1955.html
Cummings, J.G., (2012), The Great Railway Caper: Big Data, Read More »
presentation at October 2017 LEO Computers Society Reunion at HAC London. Copies can be obtained from John Daines and Frank Land.
Daines, J. (2017) The LEO Computers Society Heritage Project, Read More »