Computing, September 30th.
Sabbagh, D. (1999) When Lyons roared Read More »
The Times Newspaper, Chairman’s report notes sale of all of the Lyons LEO Computers shares to English Electric and formation of English Electric LEO Marconi, June 14th
Salmon, Sam, Chairman, (1965), J. Lyons & Co: Annual General Meeting Report, Read More »
LEO Computers Society, editor Bernard Behr, Newsletter and Review, Summer 2015, Vol. 2, pp. 16-17. Apply to Frank Land or Bernard Behr for copy if required.
Sant, W., (2015), The Early Days of Customs & Excise Computing Read More »
Celebrating 50 years of British Technology Innovation, Computer Weekly, April 5-11, pp. 23-29. http://www.bitpipe.com/fulfillment/1459781780_511
Saran, C. (2016) The heyday of computing: How the Brits ruled IT, Read More »
Cliff Saran tells the story of Bakery Valuations the world’s first business application in November 1951, Computer Weekly, https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Cliff-Sarans-Enterprise-blog/LEO-Office-automation-is-still-going-strong
review of LEO Remembered coupled with reference to LEO Film and the Science Writer’s award, published in Winter Edition of IT NOW, Volume 64, Issue 4. The British Computer Society publishes 35,000 copies of IT NOW. See: IT Now
Cooper, M., (2022), Remembering the world’s first business computer, Read More »
MOD Secrets of Eastcote Government Office Site: The Customs Excise Years.
(In 1947, under the inspiration of TR Thompson, Lyons, the firm of tea-shops, started – with remarkable foresight – to take a serious interest in applying digital computing to their accounting and office work generally. By 1954, LEO (Lyons Electrical Office) computers carried out 3 commercial jobs for Lyons – the bakeries’ payroll, calculation of production and schedule dispatch to 150 tea shops, and the provision of management information.)
The the earlier Elliot 405 was replaced in 1963 by the tenth LEO 3 ever built. It was housed in H Bay (thought by many to have been originally intended as the location for the Operating Theatre had D-Day proved more widely injurious), and, being a very advanced and powerful machine for its time, it aroused so much interest that a glass wall was built around it to allow for a viewing gallery. Data input was via Hollerith punched cards (rectangular holes, and 80 columns), and paper tape. At this stage the purpose of the site’s computing power was purely for Census Office work, but later the Department’s Payroll system was computerised and run on the LEO, a huge undertaking. The LEO worked until 1971
MOD Secrets of Eastcote Government Office Site: Read More »
presentation at the London School of Economics on 14th October 2016. The presentation took the form of a conversation between the speaker, the Executive Chair of Alphabet, the Google parent company, and Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou of the LSE and the audience. The presentation can be heard on the LSE podcast at Podcast The event was jointly sponsored by LSE’s Department of Management and the LEO Computers Society. It was intended to be the first of an annual LEO lecture.
Schmidt, E. (2016) From LEO to Deep Mind: Britain’s computing pioneers, Read More »
Resurrection, Issue Number 85, Spring 2019, pp. 27-28. Alan notes his appointment in 1960 as senior programmer at Standard Triumph working on their LEO II/8 following a programming career in aero- space industry.
, Sercombe, A., (2019), A Life in Computing, Read More »