First Name |
Surname |
Maiden Name |
Country |
LEO Machines |
LEO History |
Post LEO Career |
Ken | Abbott | | | , | | |
Qasem | Abu Al-Haija | | Saudi Arabia | , | Academic Interest | |
Roderick | Adams | | | legal adviser 1963-1966 | legal adviser 1963-1966 | practised at bar 1967-1990, circuit judge 1990-2003. |
Douglas | Addison | | | , | Joined LEO at 16. Worked at the Minerva Rd North Acton site until closure 1968 following the merger with ICT Trainee involved with hardware development. | Currently, Sales Engineer with Eaton Power Solutions at Bognor Regis. Supply and install DC power to the Telecomms industry.Thinking about retirement |
David | Adsett | | | LEO III, | LEO Computers Ltd at Minerva Road 61 to 64 Technical Assistant - Junior Engineer LEO 3/F Development | Achieved CEng status & MSc Named as Inventor in 5 Patents |
John | Aeberhard | | | Academic | | |
John | Agar | | | , | | |
Alan | Agutter | | | LEO III, | wiring and inspection 1961 to 1964 | |
Howard | Aiken | | | , | | |
Charles | Aitchison | | UK | LEO III/23, III/27, | 1971-1973 Resident engineer at Freemans for Computer Field Maintenance | Retired |
Martin | Albu | | | Leo III customer, | | |
Lyn | Alcock | | | LEO 326, | Started work in 1970 as a Leo 326 programmer, initially using Intercode, later Cleo. Worked on stores systems and vehicle records, based in Charles House, Kensington High St. Used local machines in London and I seem to remember the live systems ran on machines in Derby and Lytham St Annes. | When the postal and telecomms services split I worked for BT for several years. By then we were using ICL System 4 machines but I can't remember exactly when my involvement with Leo ended |
Martin | Alcock | | United Kingdom | LEO III. (26 I think) | LEO Customer - Smith & Nephew | in 1963 I was a programmer |
Igor | Aleksander | | | , | | |
James | Algar | | | , | | |
Giles | Allen | | | LEO II/1, III, | Joined Leo Computers 4 September 1961. After 2 weeks programming course at Hartree House joined the engineers at Elms House looking after Leo II/1 under Dick Cromwell and later Mike Lambden. Moved to Charles House in Kensington looking after the GPO's two Leo 326s under Brian Ash among others. | Moved to Letchworth 1 / 2 factory under Frank Woods in May 1970 to crack 1900 dumps. I have stayed in the Letchworth / Stevenage area since then doing lots of different jobs in ICL. I am currently still working for ICL as File Controller (Administrator) of the OSD Oracle Financial system for the Infrastructure Services Division of ICL (ISD) |
Reg | Allen | | | , | Joined LEO June 1962 in the training department at Hartree House and then Minerva road, then Radley House etc | Eventually left ICL - still in a training role at Bracknell in 1981. Became a Financial Advisor with CIS limited until retirement in 1996 |
Dave | Alterton | | | , | 1960-1962 programmer (LEO II training course; programming on LEO II/5; programming on LEO III master routine; all at Hartree House).1962-1964 senior programmer (on-site with LEO III/9, Customs and Excise, London and Southend).1964-1966 c | |
Jackie | Ambridge | | UK | , | | |
John | Amos | | UK | , | | |
Tom & Judy | Anderson | | | LEO III/9, | LEO III programmer for Customs & Excise | |
John | Andrews | | | LEO II/5, | 28 3 1959 to 31 12 1961 II/5 Service Bureau. Joined as Job Assmbly (note the initial letters!) Clerk, ran it for a few months then onto shifts as an operator. | ICL sales and techie blue chips and public corporations, product planner, marketeer, ICL Belgium MD, ICS MD; then Data General, Oracle, SAP, MediaSurface in various Commercial Director roles, self-employed business/commercial/IPR consultant pre retirement |
Philip | Andrews | | | LEO III, | | |
Wendy | Andrews | Peek | UK | Leo II/5 | Joined Leo in 1960 as a trainee programmer. Moved on in early 1962 | BOAC IBM 1401, 360
BAC ICL 1901
F International
3M Project Management |
Wendy | Andrews | | | , | Oral History Interviewer | |
Igor | Andronov | | United Kingdom | Customer | Phoenix Assurance | LEO III 33 and 24 |
Dennis | Ansell | | New Zealand | LEO III/6, III/14, III/22, | Shell Bp Manchester 1968/70 Renolds Chains 72/72 | System 4/72 NWGB, NORWEB, NZ Post Office Customer service manager Suve Fiji 1980 - 85 |
Peter | Anthony | | | LEO III/1, III/94 | Began as operator on 111/1 1966 to 1968?. Moved to LBMSU on 111/94 as Shift Leader, then moved with unti to LOLA and worked on IBM 360/50 - became Operations Manager. Ended IT carear in 1999 as Area Manager for CFM (Outsourcing arm of Fujitsu) in Service | |
Mike | Archer | | | LEO III/6, III/14, | Shell Mex and BP (Hemel Hempstead):1966 (?) to 1971 Operator, Senior and Chief Operator | 1971 (?) to 1976: SMBP/BP (Hemel Hempstead). Hardware planning. COBOL programming, UNIVAC 1106/8. 1976: emigrated to Canada. Variety of IT positions (systems analyst through IT management) in Banking, Retail, Insurance. Finally switched careers to actuarial analysis for life insurance company. Retired in my late fifties to little town on shores of lake Ontario to paint, write and play with grandkids |
Bob | Archibald | | | LEO III/9, III/27, | 1966-69 Customs & Excise - Operator & Programmer 1970-72 Freemans - Programmer & Senior Programmer | |
Hamish | Archibald | | | , | | Work history is set out in the introduction to -User-driven Innovation- but the essentials are that I left Corby in 1969, where I had been Senior Project Manager in the O and M department to become Management Services Manager at the Teesside Division of British Steel. I remained based at Teesside in various senior management computer roles in British Steel until retirement in 1990. |
Colin | Argent | | | LEO III, | During my one week induction to ICL, I was informed that a well-known computer called LEO had been a big seller in the past (esp. to the Post Office) but the production line had been mothballed. Due to a late burst of interest, more machines had been sold and there was now a training requirement. Over the next few years, I taught the LEO-S and then the LEO-F. Our practical was to attend the Kayser Bondor site for an hour or so on a Friday during their maintenance period. Over the course of the ten weeks I would get the students to write a program for a horse racing scenario, which we would run (and bet on) on the final session. Another perk was employee discount for nylons (for wives/girlfriends), etc. on the way out! | I left ICL in 1979 and worked for a number of companies (Taylor Instruments, PRIME, TIMEPLEX, NET, CLARION Training) then set up my own training company (Ashmead Training Ltd.) which I still run, although downsized to just me now. I have recently passed the MEF CECP exam (one of only a few hundred world-wide) and as a result I teach that course as far afield as Australia |
Christine | Arrowsmith | Arrowsmith | United Kingdom | System 4 | Trainee to Senior Programmer | Rank Hovis McDougal |
Brian | Ash | | United Kingdom | LEO III/1, III/12, III/26, III/34, III/41, III/44, | Joined 1962/3 as an Engineer working at Hartree, Lyons, Minerva Rd. and NDPS. Commissioned III/26, 34 installed and was site supervisor for these GPO machines. 1967 went to Czechoslvakia for 2 yrs. Teaching and supervising the III/41 maint. | Left LEO in 1970 and joined the GPO/ NDPS to monitor the commissioning of further GPO leo Machines |
Pat | Ashcroft | | | LEO II/1,II/5, II/7, II/11, | History: Joined Leo Computers directly from school; initially applied to be an Operator but when GCE 'A' level results came through (Physics & Applied Maths) decided engineering would make better use of these qualifications. Started at Cadby Hall September 1961 as trainee computer engineer on II/1 under Sean McDonald working shifts (and enjoying the gastronomic delights of the Managers' Mess) alongside Dick Cromwell, Jim Hume, Mike Lambden, Giles Allen etc. (see photo on website).
In 1963 transferred to II/11 at Fords Dagenham under John Heeney and spent many happy nights in the glow of Ford's foundry fixing Decca tape decks.
Had expected to graduate to Leo III maintenance engineering but was persuaded to go to Hartree House to work on II/5 & II/7 until they closed down in exchange for a promise I would jump a generation and be included in the first team to work on the 'world's first computer using integrated circuits'(RCA Spectra 70/45 in Hartree). | Career: 20 years with ICL (including time with Leo etc) then Data General, Wang, STC etc eventually coming full circle and working once more for a catering company (Compass Group). |
Ken | Ashdown | | | , | | |
John | Ashley | | | LEO III/9, III/10, | Joined LEO December 62, as a technician.After training at Minerva Rd worked at Eastcote then moved to Southend Customs & Excise LEO III/9. Retrained as engineer at Min Rd during 64. | After formation of English Electric- Leo retrained on Marconi 4/30 and System 4 range.Worked at most of the Central London System 4 sites.
After formation of ICL worked in Johannesburg on various System 4 sites including Leo Computers Bureau and Consolidated Glass.Returned to ICL UK in '78 after five years in S.A.
Still working as an engineer with ICL. |
Derek | Ashworth | | | LEO II/3, | 1964-1966 Programming Leo II. Some new development but mainly Maintenace of existing systems | Still programming, but will retire this year |
Frances | Askew | Abbott | | LEO III, | 1963 joined LEO1966 - 1967 Senior Programmer, based in Prague commissioning LEO3261967 - 1969 Senior Programmer, based in Belgrade commissioning LEO326 | Senior Business Analyst, retd 1992 |
David | Attwell | | | LEO II/5, II/10, II/11, | Joined LEO Computers November 1963 as Service Engineerworked on LEO II/5, Hartree HouseLEO II/10, Ford DagenhamLEO II/11, Ford Ockenden | Later retrained on KDF8 machines and Left in 1974 when System 4 Central London Service Manager. Became National Service Manager for Rediffusion and UK Technical Director for Datapoint.Currently Senior Partner Datawell Group |
Noel | Austin | | | , | | |
Ted | Avery | | UK | , | For the historical interest | I left the the royal navy in 1967 having been on radio and radar maintenance. I joined English Electric Leo Marconi and worked on the KDF9 at Nottingham University till 1972 when it was closed down. After a period working for the university I spent 15 yea |
Chrisanthi | Avgerou | | | , | | |
Tony | Ayres | | UK | LEO machines | Worked in the design department at Acton during school and university holidays in the late 50s and early 60s | |
Ed | Babb | | | , | | |
Terence | Baggett | | | , | | |
James | Bagnall | | | , | | |
John | Baker | | UK | LEO III/3, III/3, | Dunlop Rubber Co 1965-77 Fort Dunlop Birmingham. | Littlewoods, Liverpool. New systems acceptance and infrastructure project management on Bull and then Sun systems. |
David | Baldock | | | , | | |
Bryan | Balfour | | | LEO III/1, | Service Manager LEO/System 4 Bristol then Regional Support Manager then Support | |
Michael | Bancroft | | | , | | |
Peter | Banks | | | LEO II, III, | Minerva Road Design Office 1957 to 1964 | |
Edward | Bannon | | | LEO III/44, | Shift Leader Post Office Docos House 1968 to 1972. | Shift Leader icl 1906s 1972 to 1975 Queen,s University Chief operator burroughs 3700/3900 1975 to 1984 TSB NI Belfast |
Balbir | Barn | | | , | | |
James | Barnes | | United Kingdom | Antony Bernard Barnes was my Father | | Airline Pilot. Antony Bernard Barnes’ Son. |
Graham | Barter | | | LEO III/38, III/43, | Worked on LEO 326 @ H.M.Dockyatds, King Henry 1 Street Portsmouth as Operator/Manager from 1967 until the machines removal in 1977 | Moved on to System 4 machines with a fall back facility to emulate a 326! Then ICl 2960 - 2988 and then IBM machines until retired in 1999 |
Nigel | Bartram | | | , | | |
Hans | Bathija | | Canada | , | | Fellow, BCS; been in IT since I bought a C64; programmed on punch cards |
Fred | Baty | | | LEO I, | Margaret Baty writes "My father worked at J.Lyons as head buyer for stationary etc,had done since demob from the army (1918). I joined Lyons in 1946 working Powers Samas" | |
Brian | Baverstock | | UK | Leo 326 | Engineer | ICL/Fujitsu 1970-2002 |
Ken | Baxter | | | LEO III/1, III/13, III/17, III/32, III/37, III/42, | Joined LEO Sept '62: | Survived various mergers and left ICL July '69. |
Brian | Beagley | | | LEO II, III, | In the mid 1950s I worked first at the factory behind Shepherds Bush, on the design of LEO II. Then in the following year at the Minerva Road Factory in Park Royal. | I went on the gain three Degrees in Science at the University of Birmingham, then became finally a Reader in Chemistry at UMIST. |
Ashton | Beale | | | LEO III/3, | Joined English Electric LEO Marconi Computers in July 1967. Worked in Birmingham at Fort Dunlop and other sites as engineer. | Moved on to System 4/70's, etc 2900'sLeft ICL/Fujitsu 8 years ago. |
Norman | Beasley | | UK | , | | |
Paul | Beatty | | | LEO III, | did training course, then switched to System 4 as in instructor in the training school. 1966 onwards. | I can remember hitting the mercury delay lines just to annoy the other engineers. |
Richard | Beckingsale | | | LEO II/5, Iil/7, III/1 | Joined August 1960 -Trainee Programmer May 1961 into Job Installation Team October 1961 Operator II/5 August 1963 Chief Operator II/5 & II/7 October 1963 Senior Programmer Basic Commercial Routines section LEO III. October 1966 promotion to a Programming Manager within Systems Programming Dept. Remained in the company during the merger with ICT and held various positions in ICL until 1981. 21 years and redundancy - an interesting year. | From 1982 to 1985 worked for an IBM database software supplier. In 1985 came back to ICL and worked on the OPCON project ending up as Project Manager until I retired in 2002 on the last day of ICL. |
Bernard | Behr | | | LEO III/2, | Programmmer 1967 to 1969 LEO Computer Bureau Anderson Street Johannesburg | |
Henry | Beitz | | | , | | |
Roger | Belbin | | United Kingdom | Customer but attached to LEO for 3months in 1959 | Standard Triumph 1959-61 programmer, Dunlop 1961-64 Senior Programmer, City of Coventry 1964-69.Chief Programmer/Computer Mamager | Joined ICL in 1969 and worked as line manager/ project manager and consultant until 1993. |
Mike | Bell | | | LEO II/9, | at Ilford FilmsOperator at Ilford Films October 1963 to December 1964 | All IT related |
Wendy | Bellis | Newton | | LEO II/5 | Programming at Hartree House from Sept 1959 to March 1963, also taught on training courses. Married Doug Bellis of BOC in March 1963 and went with him to work for BOC in Manchester. | After marrying Doug Bellis (British Oxygen) and having 2 children, I started programming again in 1975 and have continued to do so until I retired last June |
Simon | Benedictus | | | LEO II/1, | Joined Lyons Maid mid 50's Worked on ice vcream and Bakery Distribution control. Lyons' Company ModelLEO III LEO II Lyons Lyons Maid Shepherd and Manning | |
Michael | Bennet Levy | | | , | | |
Terry | Benson | | | LEO III/13, III/3, III/18, III/6, III/14, | Joined EELMC in 1965 at Shell Mex/BP Wythenshaw and BOC Worsley. Stayed until 1970. | Then joined CFM as chief engineer at BOC Worsley. After CFM I worked as an engineer for CASE maintaining Data Mux systems. Later joined Prime Computers and stayed for 12 years. Then looked after aircraft maintenance systems at Manchester |
Derek | Bensted | | | , | | |
David | Berg | | | LEO III/39 | Joined from school in 1966 as trainee operator, over the years became operator, Shift Leader and Chief Operator not sure of dates. Leo (or major parts of it)were eventually donated to Barnet College again not sure of dates. I stayed with Ever Ready until take over by Hansons in 1986 when I was made redundant | |
Raydon | Berry | | Luxembourg | , | At (MOD(N)) H.M.Dockyards Portsmouth (base), Devonport, Chatham and Rosyth. 05/08/1968 PTO IV ex Technician apprentice employed as Computer Programmer (using CLEO and Intercode) on Production Control and Resource Allocation systems. | 1984 NATO Software librarian on AWACS systems. 2002 Local Systems Administrator in the Publishing and Distribution directorate of the European Parliament. Now (aged 60) and receiving my preserved pension from MOD(N) I am thinking of retiring to Crete (my wife is Cretan) |
Tom | Biltcliffe | | | LEO III/10, | CLEO programmer 1967-71 @B. of T. Eastcote. Various I.T. jobs. Retired from DTI 1993. | |
Stephen | Binger | | | , | At Hartree House working on the LEO III, KDF9 and the System 4. Then Newman street (Baric), London I was in the merger From English Electric, to LEO, to LEO Marconi then ICT/ICL. | went out to Jamaica with ICL for about 7 years 1971-1978. |
Philip | Bird | | UK | Son of Peter Bird, who was an early pioneer and Author on LEO and Lyons, | Son of Peter Bird | |
Roy | Bissell | | Australia | LEO II/5, II/7, II/9, II/11, | Technician at Hartree House,BOC, Ford, Dagenham and Ilford Films. 1962-1966 | Jazz musician then worked in film industry then in finance with insurance group and retired in 2002. Left England in 1970 and lived in Paris for 25 years and Australia for 14 years to present day |
Bob | Blakeman | | | , | | |
Patrick | Blakes | | | LEO II/7, II/9, IIIs, 360s, 326s, | Joined LEO Computers in 1958 as EngineerMaintenance Management specialistPoked about in the guts of most IIs, IIIs, 3Fs, 326s etc. at one time or another for my sins. | Left ICL in 1970Retired as Director CSM / Granada Companies in 1989 |
Peter | Blakey | | New Zealand | LEO III/2, | Started my computer career working for LEO Computer Bureau, (owned by Rand Mines) Johannesburg South Africa, programming in CLEO, in January 1967, left in February 1968 | |
Michael | Blayney | | UK | LEO III/1, III/36, | 1963. LEO III at Hartree House - Telephone Billing. Then Premium Savings bonds at Lytham St Annes. | |
Tilly | Blythe | | | , | | |
Tilly | Blythe | | | , | | |
Tilly | Blythe | | | , | | |
Penny | Boaden | Hubbard | South Africa | Leo III, | Programmer in 1960s | Intercode and Cleo |
Vincent | Bodsworth | | United Kingdom | Attended lectures on EDSAC given by Maurice Wilkes | Many contacts with LEO people in ICL | ICT/ICL for many years 1967 to 1984 |
Vincent | Bodsworth | | United Kingdom | Academic | ICL | Publishing |
Norman | Bonello | | Malta | NA, | Absolutely fascinated by the LEO project and how/what it manged to acheive - in 1950's ! | Customer Engineer/S&TS with ICL (Malta) in the 70's - 80's |
Maurice | Bonney | | | , | | |
Andre | Boonzaier | | USA | LEO III/2, III/40, | Employed by LEO Computers in South Africa as a computer operator. What a machine to work on! Used to do the overflow night shift work on the Consolidated Glass LEO III/40. | Career: Went into commercial software development (remember COBOL - sigh!), software support, mini-computers (TI, Datapoint). Ended my career as software and database sales for Informix and IBM. Retired two years ago and I am not back at college doing a nursing degree (go figure!) |
LInda | Booth | Macdonald | United Kingdom | LEO III programming, CLEO | Late 62 Trainee programmer, putting together training materials, briefly with the CLEO team in Acton. Later went back with the South West Gas Board in Bath. Not a distinguished career!!! | |
Martin | Booth | | | , | | |
Richard | Boreham | | France | LEO III, KDF 9, Spectra 70/45, | ex employee - Hartree House - Minerva Road | Joined EELM mid '60s as operator/programmer. ( 1st employment!) Now retired after a career mostly associated with IT and would be glad to be of any use helping in Society projects. ( Although location and poor memory not helpful - :)) |
Brian | Boutel | | | , | | |
Don | Bowell | | | , | | |
Jonathan | Bowen | | | , | | |
Patrick | Boys | | | LEO III/21, III/45, | Worked for English Electric LEO Marconi approximately 1966-1968 as site engineer in London on LEO III at Tote Investors and Durlachers | Site Engineer withICL until 1969, Commisioning Engineer with Honeywell Information Systems and became principle engineer until 1979, worked for Honeywell Reseller Topas International till approx 1989 as programmer, consultant then salesman. Then with MDIS/Northgate as senior account manager until 2000 |
Beata | Bradford | | | , | | |
Beata | Bradford | | | , | | |
Edward | Bradley | | UK | LEO III/32, III/37, | 1967 - 1970 LEO III Operator at Ravenscraig Steelworks, Motherwell. 1970 - 1973 LEO III Operator at B.I.C.C. Prescot | Best days of my life |
Paul | Brady | | Australia | LEO III/8 | Worked for Australian Computers on LEO III/8 at Tubemakers of Australia - 1964 | Shift Leader on LEO III/8 at Tubemakers. Site Supervisor on System 4 at AWA. Operations Manager on ICT 1900 at ICL |
Desmond | Bransgrove | | | LEO III/21, III/94, | During the early seventies 73-76 employed by ICL as field engineer worksmostly at lbmsu and tote inv, also worked on III/1 (leo training course) and other London sites inc III/5, III/27, III/45. | from ICL moved on to Nothern Telecom then Reuters,now working for a localschool in IT Support role. |
C.G. | Breiner | | | LEO III, 326, 360, | Employed by LEO Computers at Minerva Road, approx 1963-66Doing test programming (of hardware) | Retired |
Robert | Brett | | | , | | |
Mike | Brewer | | | LEO I, III/1, III/6, III/10, III/6, III/14, III/29, III/31., | Engineer, LEO I, 1959/60 (with Dave Rocke, Ernie Aylott,Sam Mitra,RowanMcCombe..);1961/62 installed III/1 Hartree,1963-68 Shell installed in turn III/6,III/14,111/29,111/31.Later Chief engineer Board of Trade 111/10. | |
Norman | Brierley | | | , | Operator at BOC Worsley, Manchester on LEO III/13 in m1972 | |
Mike | Brignall | | | LEO II, III, | LEO Computers Ltd 1961-1964South Western Gas Board 1964-1966 | |
Jude | Brimmer | | | , | Cambridge Computer History Museum, Archivist | |
Harry | Brindley | | USA | LEO III/2, | LEO Computer Bureau, Johannesburg, South Africa approx 1977 - 1979 | |
Graham | Briscoe | | | LEO III/24, III/33, | COMPUTER HERITAGE RESEARCH | I have access to an old ( early 70s ) long playing record ( x6 ) and associated slide presentation developed by the Institite of Office Management ( Council Chair was John Simmonds ) now put onto VHS video. |
Bob | Brissett | | Australia | LEO II | Programmer and Salesman LEO Australia in Sydney | Remained in computer industry to date |
Thelma | Brister | Fitzgerald | | , | | |
Norman | Brittain | | USA | LEO III/8, | Programmer with AWA using Tubemakers LEO 326 - 1965 - 1969 AWA converted to IBM (ugh) 1969 (?) | |
Christine | Britton | | | , | | |
Jim | Britton | | | LEO III/1, III/28, | 1962-64: Programmer with LEO Computers Ltd at Hartree House. Main project was -Group Endowments-. 1964-93: Programming, Systems, and eventually IT Management. | Retirement is wonderful. |
Tom | Brooks | | | LEO III, | Joined LEO in mid 1963. Short while in Hartree House Bureau. Soon outsourced to the Post Office where I worked on Telephone billing, P.O. Statistician, -Long Lines-, and Post Office Savings Bank. Loaned to Marconi Chelmsford on Myriad computer, before returning to System 4. | With ICL until 1981 including 1973-76 in Hong Kong. In 1981 joined several ex LEO colleagues in BIS staying until 1993, then engaged on management consultancy for Draxmont until retiring in 2010. |
Frank | Broos | | | , | | |
David | Brown | | UK | LEO III/1, | Early 60s at Hartree House, seconded to Edinburgh University to work on EMAP project. Transferred to Kidsgrove site and left soon after. | |
Pete | Brown | | | , | | |
Robert | Brown | | England | LEO III | Programmer on LEO III all at the Post Office. Remained in the company through the English Electric days and into ICL until being made redundant in 1987. | Post LEO, became a team leader and project manager on large programming projects, and was in charge of all the programmers working on Post Office projects from 1968 to 1970. Later ran the team responsible for converting customers from other machines to I |
Amanda and Paul | Browne | | | Mary Coombs daughter and partner | | |
Colin | Browning | | UK | LEO III/1 | Nov 1961 Operator Shift Leader.Approx 1967: Chief, Support Services.Approx 1971: Manager, Data Preparation South. (Under LEO/English Electric LEO/ EELM/Baric). | Sales Support Manager, Rocc Computers, 1975-1990. (Data Capture eqpt.)Application Support Manager, Hays Document Management, 1994-present. (Data capture bureaux). |
Ian | Bruce | | | LEO III/30, III/51, | Mostly on the LEO 326 in the GPO Edinburgh from late 60s until 1978 | |
Ian | Brunton | | UK | LEO III/1, | Engineer 1957-1959 | |
Julian | Bryan | | | , | Interested to compare and contrast with the Legal Software Suppliers Association, which I chair. | My career has moved from wanting to be a farmer through to programming agricultural extension tools for cattle rationing and grassland management through to managing the development of applications for dairy then veterinary then legal industries! |
Patrick | Bryan | | | LEO III/1, III/11, | Junior Programmer 1963-64 Hartree House under John Phipps. Junior then Senior Programmer 1964-68 at Birmingham Office under Rosemary ? and Chris Davey. | Chief Programmer at Bowmaker Plant, Cannock 1968-70. Systems Analyst at IBM Birmingham Data Centre 1970-73. Training in Oxford 1973-75 then Anglican Minister 1975-87. Analyst/Programmer then Assistant Team Leader Staffordshire County Council 1987-I was Assistant Team Leader at Staffs County Council 1987 to 1988 where I met my wife. Programming and Systems at LS3 a software house in Leamington 1988-89.and at Trusthouse Forte 1989-1992 and Dudley Council I.T. Department 1992 until I took early retirement in 2000. |
Tony | Bryant | | | , | | |
Mike | Buckley | | | , | | |
Malcolm | Burchall | | | , | | |
Reg | Burgess | | | LEO II, III, | Early LEO IIIs; CAV Acton, London Boroughs, and one destined for South Africa during commissioning at Minerva Road. Dunlop and Southall LEO III sites in Birmingham. Site commissioning and h/w maintenance at London Boroughs temporary site. KDF-9 site at Met office in Bracknell. 2 used LEO IIs in their "second lives" as service bureau - ex Ford, II/4 and II/11? I joined in January '61, took the LEO III hardware course at Hartree House, it was THE NEW MACHINE that wasn't quite de-bugged. My favorite acronym TLA is still "ZOT" (three letter acronym - zero order tank(or tube)). Some time at Minerva Road commissioning, I vaguely remember George Manley and Frank Wroe Site work at CAV Acton, installed London Boroughs in its temporary location at New Cross, then the EE "merger" (Take Over). I went to Kidsgrove quite early, worked with Pat Blake and Jeremy-(someone with EE background, last name forgotten). Did support from there to Dunlop and Southall in Birmingham | After the EE merger- I went to Kidsgrove quite early, worked with Pat Blake and Jeremy-(someone with EE background, last name forgotten). Did support from there to Dunlop and Southall in Birmingham |
Rachel | Burnett | | | , | | |
Rachel | Burnett | | | , | | |
Dale | Burrows | | | , | | |
Norman | Burton | | | LEO III, | Peripheral Technician Minerva Road 1962-64. | 1964-66 Honeywell 400 commissioning engineer at Newtown, Scotland. One of 4, three ex LEO Minerva Road. Later, H200, 150 etc. |
Peter A | Butler | | Australia | , | | |
Peter B | Butler | | | , | | |
Peter | Byford | | | LEO III/1 | 1961-65 programmer LEO III/1 service bureau, Hartree House | |
Paul | Bygrave | | | , | | |
Robin | Byrne | | USA | LEO III/1, III/26, | I'm no good with dates, I'm afraid. Best I can do is early 70's on. I worked in Hartree house as well as Charles House in Kensington. Also on local govt site in Greenwich. | Moved on to ICL. Total employment time approx 15 yrs. |
Chris | Byrneham | | | LEO III/4, | London Boroughs joint computer commitee LBJCC Grenwich | Now server side web applications developer |
Brian | Caddell | | Australia | LEO III/15, III/20 | 1965-6 Australian Computers bureau shift operator | 1966-9 KDF6 and System 4/30 programmer; 1970-2001 programmer through IT Manager |
Barry | Caiger | | | , | | |
Keith | Callaghan | | | LEO III, | HM Customs & Excise programmer (Intercode) 1965-66. London Boroughs Management Services Unit Systems Analyst 1966-70. | ?IBM |
Hilary | Caminer | | UK | , | | |
Matthew | Caminer | | | , | | |
Fred | Campbell | | | LEO III/1, III/45, III/94 | in the wages section. I,with others,had to attend Leo at Cadby Hall to get printouts and take back to Orchard St and cross reference them with Power Samas. a tedious but important job. In my opinion Salmon and Gluckstein.(J.Lyons) were excellent employers and I stayed with them until my first son was born in 1952. | Left ICL in 1971 for LBMSU which became LOLA. 21 years later ICL bought LOLA and I was back home. I retired from computers in 2000 |
Martin | Campbell-Kelly | | | , | | |
Jack | Cannon | | | Lyons Teahouses | Lyons in early 1960s as well as one of the first university webmasters in the UK (University of Greenwich). | |
Mike | Canton | | | Leo 1, Leo II/5, KDF6 | Joined Leo in 1960 as operator on Leo1, then moved to Leo II/5 at Hartree House as operator progressing to Chief Operator. Then moved to Electronic Data Systems, the Leo subsidiary in New Zealand, as DP Manager. | Joined Panasonic as DP Manager, progressing to Managing Director. |
Colin | Cape | | UK | LEO I, II/5, | I was on the first programming course and the first engineers training course, both in 1958. Joined the 11/5 maintenance crew, then became a roving 'Tech specialist' working with John Wheeler and Lenaerts. All in the UK | After LEO I was i/c the Elliott 803s at Llanwern steelworks, then worked for London U on 'Diana of the Chase', IBM, Honeywell, DEC, Ferranti, Gerber Scientific. I still work with computers |
Peter | Carle | | | LEO III/24, | I worked as an Operator for Allied Suppliers Ltd from September 1965 until Spring 1967, before getting involved with the ICT 1900 Series. Attended LEO 3 training course at Radley House, South Ealing in 1966. | |
Colin | Carpenter | | UK | LEO II/3, | April 1957 - Sept. 1958 Stewarts & Lloyds, (II/3), Corby. (Cadby Hall Summer 1957).Worked on Iron Ore Open Cast Production Control | Retired University Lecturer |
Ken | Carpenter | | Australia | LEO II/5, | Joined in about spring 1962 as a tecnician in the data prep dept. Then moved into the computer peripheral area of the LEO II mainly nursing the printers, tape decks and paper tape readers. At least that's how I remember it! | Career: Briefly, I have spent 40 years in computers. Moving to AEI on the 1010. Then 20 Marconi Space and Defence Systems working on training simulators. Then off to France on the CII IRIS series. Then to Australia on Big Blue machines working for the insurance company AMP |
Geoff | Carrington | | | LEO II/11, | Ford Motor Co Ltd. 1958 - 1967 trainee programmer to manager, Production Systems. Mostly production control including an early parts requirements calculator but also payroll, warranty, engineering project tracking etc. | 7 years in S America as consultant, contractor, whatever incluidng 3 yrs with UN. Back to England and more variety from software manager to contractor to consultancy joint owner. Advice/project work all over, seminars in Brazil to project work in Akron, Ohio. BUSY |
Anthony | Carroll | | UK | II/2 and II/10 at W. D. & H. O. Wills, | My first job in the big, wide world and it set me on an IT career that lasted until the early 21st century. Those early computers were very interesting to work on but could be very physical and hard at times. | Then went on to operate a KDF9 (which was flooded on July 10th 1968 and working again one month later). Then joined development team as programmer and systems analyst. Progressed to be Ops mgr at Imperial Group before moving to Imperial Tobacco as Ops Pro |
John | Carroll | | | , | Employed by EELM few months after EE and LEO merger, Worked on Lector and other peripherals.1963 to 1966 | |
Bob | Carter | | | LEO II/9, | Ilford Ltd. - Operator /Programmer Course Aug 1960Operator to Chief Operator 1960 - 1965 | |
David | Carter | | | , | | |
Richard | Catchpole | | UK | , | | |
Derek | Caudwell | | | LEO III/35, | From October 1970 until the spring of 1971 I worked as an operator for Baric who used the South Western Gas LEO in Bath overnight as a bureau service. | Later worked for the CEGB, Inland Revenue and British Gas successively as an operator, programmer, systems analyst and project manager. I retired in 2001. |
Michael | Cavanagh | | Ireland | LEO III/6, III/14 | 67 to 70 | |
Kevin | Chadwick | | Canada | LEO Machines (actually EE machines, system 4) | Joined EELM in early 67. By the time I started work name had changed to EE Computers. At Kidsgrove worked on the CPU design for the 4/70, 4/75 and the upgraded version (Alice) 4/72 | Left Kidsgrove in Sep 69. Went to Toronto, Canada, worked on computer controlled Naval Command and Contol Systems and other shipboard electronics. Retired in May 2012 from DRS Technologies in Ottawa. |
John | Chandler | | | LEO III/7, III/46, | I worked for J lyons at Elms House on the LEO III/7 and III/46 from about 1970-75.I think the LEO's were phased out around 1972 and the IBM mainframes took over. My boss at the time was Peter Bird. | |
Linda | Chapman | | | , | | |
Trevor | Chapman | | | LEO III/16, III/56, | Kaysor Bondor 1964 onwards | |
John | Chatterton | | | LEO III/1, III/4, | April 1962 to February 1964LEO III/1 Hartree House, Maintenance EngineerLEO III/5 - III/4 London Borough of Greenwich, shift Leader also some months in Minerva Road commissioning systems for Shell and others. | semi retired after 17 years as a Management consultant. |
Malcolm | Cherry | | | , | | |
Raja | Choudhury | | | , | | I am currently doing a project on Business Computing and the subject is nothing without the profound story of Leo. I would love to join the society in the hope that I could get a bit closer to the story of Leo's conception and creation. |
Peter | Clare | | | , | | |
Bob | Clark | | | , | Computer Programmer for Freemans using CLEO/ Intercode and LEO M/c, some new programming and conversions to IBM: Feb/ 1972 - Oct/ 1976 | I have a solid brass (I think) LEO Tape Drive capstan. It makes a great paper weight, which I can donate. I'm leaving for Oz soon - so if you want it you need to act quickly. |
Tony | Clark | | UK | LEO III/24, III/33 | LEO III Programmer, Chief Operator, Systems Analyst, Phoenix Assurance | Worked with LEO from 1964 to 1974 |
Bryan | Clarke | | | LEO III/6, III/14, III/29, III/31, | November 1963 to December 1968Operator to Shift Leader with SMBP at Hemel Hempstead and Manchester | Continued with Shell Computer Operationsat Hemel then Manchester. Retired as Computer Ops Manager 1994 |
Clement | Clarke | | Australia | LEO III/15, | I started with Shell back in the (early?) '60s. They had a LEO II, and a III as I recall. Or, maybe they were both III's. Anyway, the experience I had with them, and the methodology, lasted me a lifetime. It was great. | I have tried to pass on some of the Australian/English inventiveness and simplicity in a product called Jol, which was designed to replace IBM's Job Control Language. You can see it, and use it, at www.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd |
Gavin | Clarke | | | LEO History Interest, | Journalist | Journalist |
Howard | Clarke | | UK | Leo III operator 1969 -1972 | Shell-Mex & BP Hemel Hempstead & Wythenshawe, Manchester Computer Operator LEO III 1969 - 1972 | |
Jack | Clayworth | | | LEO II/9, II/11, III/9, | 1963 - 1966 Ilfords and Fords, Dagenham1966 - 1967 Customs & Excise, Southend | |
Philip | Cleary | | United Kingdom | LEO III/39 | @ Ever Ready 68 to 73. My first job in IT was working at Ever Ready in Whetstone, London, as trainee operator on LEO III/39 1969-1973. Although I believe I worked for at least a day (or a night) at most LEO III installations across London in that time. Th | Now retired after working at IBM for 20 years; hope that this wnn't count against my application for membership! I took early retirement from IBM after working there for 20+ years some 5 years ago. Since then I’ve been volunteering in several roles: IT ad |
Helen | Clews | Garsed | UK | GPO, TSB | I have the following documents: A paper document in a card folder, about 1cm thick, headed GPO STOCK BRANCHES - PROGRAMME SPECIFICATIONS. Main Suite (Stage 1). Richard has written Summer 1964 on the front cover. A similar document headed GPO STOCK | |
Robert | Clubb | | | , | | |
Alistair | Cochrane | | | Leo II at Stewarts and Lloyds, Corby, | Computer operator form 1963 to 1971 | |
Roger | Coleman | | | , | | |
Ann | Collins | Lightfoot | | LEO III, | 1967 - 1971, English Electric LEO Marconi, selling the wonderful LEO III Payroll !!. | Long break May - September then more consultancy from October 2002. |
Garfield | Collins | | | , | | |
Steve | Collins | | | , | | |
Roy | Collison | | | LEO II, | Worked as Electro/Mech Inspector at Minerva Road Park Royal 1961/62Worked on contract at Kidsgrove 1964/65 | Retired July last year Worked on contract for Reuters prior to retirement.Just received the Certificate of Grant for a patent on a device I designed to help blind/deaf persons, with the aid of a computer. |
John | Comber | | | LEO III, | Nov 1964 - May 1965 Commissioning Operator on LEO IIIs at Minerva Road Factory1970 - 1974 ICL Dataskil - responsible for LEO Support (Area Manager) until ICL ceased such support | Currently semi-retired (since 1997) |
Doug | Comish | | | LEO | Director | |
Michael | Common | | | LEO III/7, III/46, | J Lyons 1967-1982 Operator to shift manager Eventually Ops Manager at J Lyons (then call Lyons Computer Services Ltd). | Spent 17 years at J Sainsbury Computer department. Now at Omnetica Ltd |
Phil | Connell | | USA | LEO III/1, | Computer operator in 1960's | Became a petroleum geologist |
Gerard | Connolly | | | LEO III/51, III/30, III/68, | 1967 Eng at GPO & Royal bank 1968 Winsford 3 months on DNS M/Cs 1968 DNS installation 1969 West Gorton Dual LEO's 1969 DNS installation 1970 LEO support Scotland | |
Barry | Conway | | | LEO III/6, III/14 | Shell Mex, BP 1966-69 and Renold Chains 1973-74. | Worked for Baric and then ICL 1974-1996 |
Simon | Coode | | | , | | |
Colin | Cook | | | LEO III/1 | Operator | Worked for a company selling discs into the IBM market. |
Gillian | Cook | Darby | | LEO III/11, | LEO III-11 (Smith and Nephew). Minerva Rd, Hartree House, Customer Services Dept. | Married another ex-LEOite, Keith Dixon of British Oxygen and Hartree House. He died in 1990 at the age of 48 having returned to the ICL fold a few years earlier after a career that took him to Lagos, Workington and Leeds. |
Tom | Cook | | | , | | |
William John | Cook | | | LEO III/1, | 1964 to 1974. Operator on LEO III/1 and KDF9. Production Officer. Installation Officer. | |
Mary | Coombs | | | LEO I, II/1, II/5, III/1, III/4 | With Lyons, LEO Computers and following companies from 1953 - 1969. Worked on LEO I, II, III, on Lyons, Ford, Met Boroughs, BOC applications; + Army Officers payroll for Glyn Mills; + various statistical jobs. | Editing training manuals for ICL & teaching programming to handicapped adults ( & a young Borstal boy!).
Now retired but very active in various fields, including Church, as an organist; Desk Top Publishing & piano teaching; concert going and various village activities. |
Alan | Cooper | | | LEO III/94, | I was a founder employee of LOLA from 1970 to 1975. LOLA was a local government consortium of 4 London Boroughs: Hackney, Hillingdon, Haringey and Tower Hamlets. LOLA created a pioneering real-time on-line database driven system to manage a 360 view of council services for its consortium citizens. This used the then new IBM IMS DB/DC software. The database design was so complex we had a hot line to the developers in the USA who were rather shocked at what we were trying to do! Where does LEO fit? LOLA came about following a report commissioned by Haringey and undertaken by London Boroughs' Management Services Unit [LBMSU]. Haringey, Hackney and Tower Hamlets were members of the North-East London Computer Scheme and this had a LEO III running rates (council tax), payroll and no doubt other applications. Hackney and Tower Hamlets supported the idea and Hillingdon soon joined; the report recommended at least 4 partners to make the the consortium cost effective. As rates was the first LOLA application we had to convert the data from the LEO system. Later on, if I recall correctly, the LEO was due for retirement and there was a need to convert the critical payroll system. In the end it was decided to commission IBM to write a LEO emulator to run on the IBM 360, either the original model 50 with 512K memory or the 1973 upgrade to a 158 with 1MB memory. So LOLA had a virtual LEO! Having discovered some old LOLA papers I am in the process or writing a Wikipedia page. My role at LOLA was in the Applications Support group undertaking database design and administration and applications software support (utilities, test emulators, middleware etc.). Some years ago I enjoyed reading A Computer Called LEO by Georgina Ferry. | Prior to LOLA I was a programmer at Barclays Bank, then a programmer at IBM Information Services. After LOLA I undertook a similar role at the Danish Bank in Copenhagen. Returned to UK in 1978 and joined TSB Trust Co. (insurance subsidiary of TSB Bank) initially as a Data Administrator but later a variety of IT and business roles around procurement and business development to mention a few. This was a company growing at 25% compound growth for 10 or more years, growing from a 100 or so staff to over 3,000! Then followed an Active MBA at Henley and 15 years of self employment much in local government and health, again procurement and new business development but IT always somewhere in the mix. I then joined Happold Consulting with more procurement and project/programme management, mostly highways, to local and central government. Now retired since 2013 and involved in community Big Lottery project (more procurement and project management!). |
Elizabeth (Betty) | Cooper | Newman | UK | LEO I, II/1 | Lyons 1949 - 1954 - Labour Cost Clerk in Stats. Office. January 1955 joined Leo, 5weeks prog course then worked with Leo Payroll team on Leo I, under Mary Coombs. Worked on Stats., Stock Control etc., under John Grover, Frank Land, then Doug Comish. Recod | Worked for engineering company EWBliss in Derby 1975 - 1085, Systems analysis and programming on a 2901/3 |
John | Cooper | | | LEO III/1, III/8, III/19, | 10/63 - 4/65 Programmer Post Office team, Premium Bonds Office4/65 - 6/69 Australian Computers- Senior Programmer- Systems Anayst- Sales Executive | 7/69 - 3/77 Urwick Diebold, Urwick International Sydney, Managing Director4/77 - 5/83 IDAPS Ltd Managing Director, Sydney6/83 - 3/94 Self-employed Management Consultant Sydney4/94 - 5/98 CSC Research, London Managing Director, London 5/98 - 10/01 The Concours Group, London10/01 - Present Self-employed Management Consultant, London & Sydney |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Leo Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's |
John | Cooper | | United Kingdom | LEO Customer | In the early 1970's I worked as a Shift Leader in George House, Kensington, London. My official title was "Executive Officer in Data Processing" and I was responsible for one shift in the main George 1 computer room running telephone billing on behalf of | My older sister actually worked for the Lyons organisation programming in CLEO in the 1960's Other Name : |
Jonathan | Cooper | | United Kingdom | Not applicable | Worked at ICL Winsford 19875 to 1980 | |
Rodney | Cooper | | | , | | |
Paul | Corbett | | | , | Operations 1965 LEO 326 GPO LCC 2; Charles House | |
Andrew | Cordani | | UK | , | History | Software developer. Interested in history |
Peter J. | Cottington | | UK | LEO III/1, III/35, | Aug. 1962 - Mar 1965 Trainee programmer / Programmer, LEO III/1 Hartree House. | Apr 1965 - June 1993 Senior Programmer etc. South Western Gas Board |
George | Coulthard | | | , | | |
Mike | Cowlard | | | LEO III7, III/46, | Operator/Shift Supervisor/Programmer .. Migrated to the IBM's that came later History: started in May 1968 not sure when I left but it could be around 1973 | Been in computers ever since Fodens/ICL/Mars Slough/Wordplex/consultancy around the world forBT/Virgin/Logica/Orange/EE/France Telecom .... and more |
Bruce | Cox | | | , | | |
Doug | Cox | | Australia | Shell Australia, CML. Australian Computers Limited, | Employed as a Computer Operator by Australian Computers Ltd. in March 1965, in Melbourne, until retrenched in October 1966. | Worked mostly for Burroughs Limited, then its descendant Unisys in a variety of roles until retirement in 2002. |
Steve | Cox | | UK | LEO III/19, | History: Worked as an operator on a Leo III at LOLA in Hackney, from about June 1973 until December 1973. I remember that six people were rquired on payroll night, Wednesday, but on other days two would operate while four would play cards. I learnt how to play Bridge there. | |
Dennis | Craney | | Australia | LEO III, | Jan 1965 to Dec 1965 in Australia (LEO, then Australian Computers) | |
Bob | Craven | | Australia | LEO III/8 | Tubemakers Sydney Programmer 1966-69 and Operations manager 1969-72 | IT Manager Streets Ice Cream IT Manager TNT Forklifts. |
Bob | Crockett | | United Kingdom | LEO III | Computer Operator. Sanaco Computer Services aka Southalls, Birmingham, UK | Started work at Southalls late 1969. Worked on the LEO until we transitioned to a GE 600. |
Nigel | Crompton | | | LEO III/13 | machines: I worked on LEO III/3 III/13 and III/23 all installed at BOC's Natiobnal Accounting center in Worsley, Manchester | Still (59) in computing, IT Systems MAnager of a large multi-site sixth-form college |
Dick | Cromwell | | | LEO II/1, III/16 | JOINED august 1958, customer engineer at Elms House to 1963. Kayser Bondor site engineer 1964 - 1966 then to system 4 and ICL Service Manager | remained at ICL until 1990 then retired and worked part time as consultant and lecturer until 2005 |
Paul | Crosby | | | LEO III/26, | Engineer in 1970s. | |
Les | Crowhurst | | | LEO I, | worked as a Technician on LEO II, LEO III from 16th. July, 1951 to 7th. April 1955 | I later worked for Elliott Brothers as a Logic Designer. I ended my career working for Honeywell/Bull as a senior Systems Engineer. |
Gordon | Cumming | | | , | I joined EELM in 1966 from Admiralty Research Laboratory, where I had worked on Ferranti Pegasus and then KDF9. I worked on System 4 Sales Support under John Forbes and Tom Watling. and saw the introduction of J Operating System into the field. | |
Bill | Cunningham | | | LEO III/1, | Arrived at E.E.LEO in 1965. Firstly to Acton then Hartree House, then Edinburgh with Bob Davidson & Jim Wallaceetc.Ops to Ops Mngmt.Worked in Glasgow as Ops. Manager on 2900s& also managed Scottish Co. we took over. Then back to Newman St., finally to Feltham in Baric days - till about 1984 | Since then a long story & I'm still trying to earn a crust. |
Miguel | DSousa | Perkins | United Kingdom | LEO Machines | My father worked on LEO as a Programmer, but I don’t know much more. | |
John | Daines | | | LEO II/5, II/7, III, | 1961 - 1964: Hartree House - II/5 (later also II/7 from BOG); 1964 - 1967: Minerva Road (LEO III/16 +) | ICL |
Billy | Dalziel | | UK | , | Corby Museum Officer | |
Mike | Daniell | | Australia | LEO III/18, | Worked as a programmer on the LEO III at Cerebos Foods in London - probably for 2-3 years around 1963? | Then went to ICL, migrated to Australia in 1966, still with ICL. Worked with a few other companies over the years. Now semi-retired but still working in computers having written a program for running sound cues etc for live theatre |
Anjali | Das | | | Academic | | |
Jerzy | Daszczuk | | | LEO III, | 1969-1974 | |
Chris | Date | | USA | LEO I, II, III | | |
Tony | Davenport | | | , | | |
Martin | Davidson | | Spain | LEO III, Also interested in re-contacting others who worked on the Master routine and CLEO, | I joined Leo in 1962, and worked as a programmer in the LEO III Master Routine group until 1965, based in Hartree House (and for a while Minerva Road, alas). I was then seconded to RCA near Philadelphia to work on their Spectra 70 operating system. I re | Worked on LEO III software 1962-5. Subsequently Programmer of operating systems & airline reservations. I currently seem to be free of the computer industry - I am (running) a record label that specialises in improvised music. |
Andy | Davies | | | , | | |
Dick | Davies | | | LEO III/9, | 1964 ヨ 1967: programmer | |
Janet | Davies | | | , | | |
Mary Josephine (Jo) | Davies | | | , | | |
Robin | Davies | | England | LEO III/12 | Development Engineer 1964-1969 at Minerva Road. LEO, System/4 | IBM 1969-1993 Development, Research. OU 1993-2006 Tutor, Writer, Examiner. |
Tony | Davies | | | Academic, | Academic | |
Christopher | Davis | | | , | | I worked with Sam Waters in Bristol and elsewhere: he supervised my PhD. I worked with (and for) ICL, DEC, HP and Prime and many 'customer organisations. Currnently I live and work in the USA |
Robert | Davis | | Israel | Academic | Junior Programmer on Leo III at Leo Computers, Johannesburg, in 1965 | Programming, Systems Analysis, Marketing, Project Manager, Documentation: Leo II 1965, IBM 1410/360 1966-1968, NCR 315/Century 1968-70, ICL 1903 IBM 1130 1971, Mini/Micro Computers 1972-1995, Security and Surveillance 1994-2021+ |
Mike | Davy | | | LEO III/39, | 1963-1972 - Programmer on LEO-III for Ever Ready. Some Intercode, mostly CLEO. | Continued in IT on IBM-360/40 and later on larger IBM systems (DOS and MVS variants) with Hoskyns (later called Cap Gemini) |
Clon | Dawson | | | LEO III/1 | 1962 - 1965. Worked on LEO III/1, the Hartree House Bureau, occasionally worked the Kayser Bondor machine.Initial training at Hartree then joined Tim Glynn's shift, going to Minerva Road to operate III/1 still being built; using monster reels of paper tape | |
Geoffrey | Dawson | | UK | LEO III/6, | Shell Mex & BP - Manchester Computer Operator 1965 to 1967 | Shell Mex & BP - Programmer on ICT 1004 & Univac 1108 Manufacturers Hanover Trust - Programmer Data Training - Cobol/Assembler Trainer Centrefile - Developer GUS - Developer CIS - Developer Still doing IT! |
John | Dawson | | | LEO III, | design/development engineer, 1963-1968 | |
Tony | Denton | | UK | LEO I, II/1, | I worked for Leo Computers on Leo 1 and Leo 2 at Cadby Hall from October 1962 to November 1965. I then moved to The Ever Ready Co.at Whetstone under Peter Wood.
I was the one of the last two Leo 1 Operators and operated the last jobs on the machine on Monday 4th January 1965 when the machine was closed down. | |
Alexander | Dick | | | , | Is directly related to the Salmon & Gluckstein (Lyons) familys. | |
Barbara | Dickens | | UK | Leo326, | Reminiscines | Intercode, machine code programmer DNS on Leo326 |
Eric | Dickens | | | LEO III, 326, | 1962 to 1966 Programmer to Chief Programmer involved with clients commercial applications | Various ICL installations as Data Processing Manager until Chief Executive of a Computer Training Centre in Peterborough from 1983 to present |
Carina | Dickinson | Woods | United Kingdom | Transcriber of Oral History interviews | Oral History transcriber | |
Diana | Dickinson | Rudston | | , | | |
Cliff | Dilloway | | | LEO II/4, II/11, | | |
Garry | Diver | | USA | LEO I, II/1, III/1, III/8, III/15, III/20, | 1961 to 1963 LEO computers London 1963 to 1966 LEO computers later EELM Australia | Stayed in Computer related fields in UK, US, and middle east including ownership of SW company HW company and related until retirement in 2002 |
Paul | Dixon | | USA | , | | |
David | Doak | - | UK | Academic | - | Academic / Scientist / Video Game Developer with interest in computer history |
Adrian | Dodd | | | , | | |
Peter | Dodsworth | | | , | | |
Stephen | Doman | | | LEO III/70, | 1969 to 1977. Senior Data Processing Officer PODPS Horfield bristol | Moved around in the Post Office, later BT. Did jobs in sales, marketing, Project Management and Humana Resources. All in some way IT linked. |
Annette | Door | | | , | | |
David | Doubtfire | | Australia | LEO III/49 | Trainee Operator, Snr Ops, Shift Leader, Trainee Programmer, transferred to IBM 360 as Shift Leader, JCL programmer and off-line support | IBM mainframe Programming, Assembler programming for Software house, Own Software sales and support company, Managing Director International Mainframe software company, Managing Director of my own IT Consulting Company, Now retired |
Dave | Dowson | | United Kingdom | , | 326 BT telephone billing | 1975 DPO aka Tape Ape @ Bristol telephone billing centre |
Ray | Dowson | | | , | | |
Peter | Drew | | | LEO III/10, III/18, | Peripheral technician BOT 1964-1966 Shift engineer Cerebos Foods 1966-1969 Shift engineer BOT 1970-1972 dates approx. | Computer Machinery Company thro to Northgate Information Systems |
Geoff | Drewett | Ann Wilyman deceased | | LEO II, | LEO Minerva Road as apprentice draughtsman 1956-1959. Met my wife Ann ( ne Wilyman ) who was an tracer in same office. She left 1961. I left to gain more mechanical experience | Subsequently after other design engineer jobs I joined Texaco as a Lubricant engineer. Moved through marketing ranks eventually becoming National Pricing Manager. I retired age 55 in 1994 and still enjoy a fantastic retirement. We now live in New Zealand where I enjoy the open roads on our big "Harley" |
Roy | Drinkwater | | | , | | |
George | Drummond | | | , | | |
Sara | Duck | Laidlaw | | LEO III/1, | English Electric LEO 1965 - 1968 | |
Bryan | Dunford | | | LEO III/1, III/6 | Engineer | System 4 and 2900 International Support Engineer |
Brian | Dunk | | | , | | |
Jim | Dunlop | | | , | | |
Bill | Dunscombe | | | LEO III/30, III/38, III/51, | Joined EELM in October 1966 as a Site Engineer and stayed involved with LEO until the 326 finally left the GPO. | |
John | Dunscombe | | | LEO I, II, | Trainee Engineer Jan 1956 to March 1958 at Olaf Street and Minerva Road. Part of the installation team for LEO 2 at Stewart and Lloyds. | Subsequent employment with ICL, GEC and NEC. |
Jack | Dunwoody | | South Africa | , | | Joined ICT Ireland 1962 as a Technical Advisor on 40-column and 80-column punched card equipment, based in Belfast with the head office in Dublin. Moved on to programming on the introduction of the ICL 1900 Series of computers and then into systems analy |
Jack | Dunwoody | | South Africa | , | | Joined ICT Ireland 1962 as a Technical Advisor on 40-column and 80-column punched card equipment, based in Belfast with the head office in Dublin. Moved on to programming on the introduction of the ICL 1900 Series of computers and then into systems analy |
John | Durham | | | , | | |
Andrea | Dutton-Kölbl | Wally Dutton's Daughter. Info relates to Wally (deceased) | Germany | LEO I, LEO II, LEO III, | At Minerva Road managed production inspection of racks, units and packages until production moved to Kidsgrove. Then managed the five factory buildings maintenance including air-conditioning of 8 commissioning sites. | |
Nigel | Dyer | | | LEO II/45, | IBM Cobol and Assembler. Now | local plumbing and heating company. |
Nigel | Dyer | | East Sussex | LEO III | Programmer in CLEO and some small amount of INTERCODE | Joined Wedd Durlacher Mordaunt in 1970 and worked for them for about 3 years |
Ninian | Eadie | | | , | I joined LEO at the end of 1960. Took the Intercode course and taught the next two courses. Worked for Bob Gibson on the CLEO language definition. Worked briefly for Mike Jackson (unsuccessful bid to Singe) Acted as bag carrier for Doug Comish selling to Retail (Heinz etc). On site Consultant for Cerebos. Went to South Africa as Sales Manage for the Rand Mines joint venture, working for Leo Fantl. Returned at the beginning of 1965. Worked for David Caminer on the re-branding of EELM with Wolf Olins. Wrote brochures and helped with System 4 launch. Took over from John Smith as the Post Office Senior Consultant. Responsible for Telephone Billing, Premium Bonds (with Alan Gudge), Savings Bank (with Trevor Davies), National Giro, and LACES. Commissioned LACES Monitor. A mixture of LEO III, LEO 326, System 4. At the time of the ICT merger accounted for about half of EELM revenue. After the Post Office worked in ICT marketing where I was responsible for establishing the functional Regional structure including Local Government (as opposed to geographic) in the LEO style. Became Regional Manage for Finance. Stayed with ICL until retirement. | |
Alan | Eardley | | | , | | |
Tony | Earnshaw | | | LEO I, II, | Computer Engineer then Design Development Engineer | No leo Mainframe info but have later English Electric Mainframe layout designs and some peripheral info. Would like to discuss use of redesign using latest logic. |
Brian | Easter | | | , | | |
Frank | Eastwood | | | , | I started straight from school in June 1970 as a tape loader on LEO iii/4 at London Boroughs Joint Computer Committee in Stockwell Street, Greenwich, and later became an operations shift leader on the LEO and its System 4/70 replacement. | I worked in IT for 34 years until 2004, when I bought a music shop! Most of my career after 1978 was spent in ICL/Fujitsu, initially in VME 2nd line support and then in managing VME support teams. |
Brian | Eaton | | United Kingdom | LEO 111 | Joined LEO III/1 as operator in July 64, - also worked on LEO III's at Durlachers, Cerebos and Charles House.Promoted to shift leader (b shift?)in October 66. Moved on to KDF 9 as chief operator in April 68. | Continued with same organisation through its various mergers and in various roles until July 01 (after 37 years) when I took voluntary redundancy from GEIS. |
Jeffrey | Eaves | | USA | , | | |
Ann | Edet | Benoy | United Kingdom | LEO 326 | Post Office NDPS, Charles House, Kensington - Programmer Intercode & CLEO - Telephone Billing, Telegraph Sampling etc. | Also used ICL 1900 with COBOL in NDPS. Worked on IBMs in Shell, then more recently in ventral and local government in various roles - designer, analyst, Team Leader and Project Manager |
Ian | Edmonds | | USA | LEO III, | History: Joined Leo in 1963 as an engineer working for Alan Cruickshank on the Document Reader. Various engineering assignments mainly in the I/O area until July 1965 when I left to come to the US. This was about the time that Leo decided to stop developing their own machines and start reselling RCA under license. | Joined Prime Computer in 1977 and ran hardware development from 1979 to 1982. Then became a founder of Stellar Computer and then president of Stardent Computer. Still active in the industry but now on the software side and more sales and marketing |
Bev | Edwards | | | LEO 326, | | |
Julian | Edwards | | | LEO III/35, | My first job from school was working night shift between 1970 and 1973 as an operator on the SWGB 3/35 for Baric. This three year period involved two weeks on LEO and one week on a System-4. I also had occasional shifts on the LEO 326 (GPO Bristol) | Career: After Leo's I carried operating on ICL 1900's, then took up programming in PLAN and COBOL. In 1975 I moved over to PDP/11 and VAX, programming in BASIC, DIBOL and some Assembler. I also shifted industry towards Telecomms. In 1983 I converted to the PC market and have run a number of Computer/Telecomms businesses since. http//www.dataflow.net |
Len | Edwards | | Australia? | LEO III | March 1964
After passing the Quis test, I was offered a position as Assistant Consultant with English Electric ヨ Leo Computers Pty. Ltd (194 Miller Street North Sydney NSW) by Peter W E Gyngell. Shortly afterwards transferred to the Melbourne office to assist with business systems conversion to Leo installations.
1 October 1964
Business taken over by Australian Computers Pty Ltd, jointly owned by English Electric ヨ Leo Computers and Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA). Position continued unchanged except a move to 77 Pacific Highway.
August 1965 ヨ December 1966
Transferred to London to assist with Australian/ UK communications. Shared an office with Bill Presdee. Part of the position was to escort Australian visitors to Leo computer sites of interest and discussing problems experienced by the Australian business with relevant executives. Returned to Sydney.
Back in Sydney with an office in William Street under Ken Pope. | 17 December 1969
Terminated employment to join Coopers & Lybrand, Chartered Accountants as a consultant advising clients in computer selection and implementation. |
Bob | Ekins | | UK | Leo 326 working for ICL, | Mainframe engineer.
Shift Leader at the BT/GPO site in Kensington in 1977 to 1988 | Went on to work on ICL VME systems and then moved over to BT as a Operating Systems Base Support Engineer |
Bruce | Elkington | | | , | Commissioning operator from Sept 1963 | |
Jean | Elliot | Cox | | LEO I, | Worked on LEO I in 1952 | |
Jean | Elliott | Cox | | LEO I | Worked on LEO I in 1952 | |
Robin | Elliott | | USA | LEO III/11, III/3, III/23, | May 1962 - April 1964 Senior Programmer at S&N Birmingham. June 1964 -May 1966 Programming team leader at Dunlop Birmingham | Worked on on IBM 360, Amdahl, Sigma, Hoeywell, DEC. for Westland Helicopters, Rank Xerox, Xerox US and Mars Candy Co US.Retired 1998 |
Harry | Ellis | | | LEO II, III, | Employed by Renold Chains Lts in 1961/2 Worked under Frank Land and Bert(?)Hodge while developing systems for Renold Chains (potential Leo customer) Redeveloped key micro-planes for Leo III | Became head of data management at ICL during seventies. Subsequent career as independent consultant culminating in eleven years as advisor to British Army on all matters data management |
Brian | Elsey | | | LEO III/1 through to LEO III/70 | Commissioning engineer | Commissioning engineer 4/70s and 4/75 Worked in the computer Industry untill I retired 2004. |
Roger | Emsley | | Canada | LEO I, II/1, III/7 | Started work at J Lyons and Company at Cadby Hall in 1960 as a programmer, initially on LEO I, then on LEO II and finally on LEO III. Amongst other applications I worked on the payroll computer system | Emigrated to Canada in 1967 and spent all of my career in the aviation industry, most of it with Canadian Pacific Airlines and its successor companies. |
John | England | | | LEO III/26, | Worked on LEO 326,s from Oct 1966 to around 1971 based at charles house Kensington High Street W14 with British Telecom | |
Rochelle | English | | | , | | |
Marc | Evangeli | | | , | | |
Jeremy | Evans | | UK | LEO customer/user | 3 years programming on LEO lll using CLEO & Intercode | My first 3 years as a programmer with MOD(Navy) from 1974 to 1977 on LEO machines at all four dockyards (Portsmouth, Chatham, Devonport & Rosyth). Eventually went into private industry where I ended up as an IT director with a Financial Services company. |
Robert | Evans | | | LEO III, 326, | Joined in Sept 63 at Minerva Rd as day-release student doing ONC/HNC at Harrow Technical College. Started writing out LEO III wiring schedules working with Norman Ship, Delia Barwick and a rather glamourous young lady called Julie (I think). I se | On leaving LEO, went to Plessey Radar at West Drayton working on Linesman Air Defence System and later 9020 Civil Air Traffic Control System. Left Plessey in 1978 and went to small data comms company in Watford called Case Communications. After ma |
Roger | Evans | | | LEO III/35, | I was an Operator at the EELM (as it then was) Bureau in Bath from August 1967 - June 1968. We worked in two shifts (1600-2330 & 2300-0700) or whenever SW Gas had finished with the machine. I was paid the princely salary of ᆪ14 per week, plus ᆪ3. | |
Stan | Evans | | UK | LEO I LEO II / 1 Leo II / 5, 7 & 9 as Engineer, | Revive memories | Joined LEO 1 in 1956 as engineer Joined Honeywell in 1962 as engineer Moved into management 1965 |
Stephen | Evans | | | LEO III, | Research Division Minerva Road 1966-1968 Boss Winterbottom, whose boss was Pinkerton I worked on Ergonomics of Visual Display Design (paper in Computer Bulletin 1968) with Ann Cropper | Went to CERN, Geneva (1968,69,70)after EELM Left CERN for The London Hospital- 25 years at there & at medical College Civil Servant briefly, now back in academia.Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology,Medical Statistics Unit London School of Hygiene |
Peter | Eversden | | | , | | |
George | Ewins | | | LEO III/3, III/13, III/25, | Worked as an operator on LEO 3 13 18 @ 25 at British Oxygen Company, Swinton, Manchester in 1973/74 | |
Doug | Fairhurst | | | LEO III/1,III/18, III/21, III/45, III/39, | Trained as a LEO III Operator and worked shifts at Hartree House for and on behalf of Ever Ready. Did off site work at Cerebos (North Acton), Kayser Bonder (Baldock), Durlacher (City) and The Tote (off Fleet Street) all around 1964/66. | Bump into a few guys from time to time - Mike Davy who did a lot of programming in CLEO for Ever Ready and worked at Hartree House, also Dave Berg who was a LEO operator at Ever Ready. |
Gerald | Fairweather | | | , | | |
Gerry | Fairweather | | | Worked with LEO III staff and was married to one for 13 years. | | English Electric Leo Kidsgrove Training Dept under Ozanne/Tomlinson 1964-68 KDF6 KDF8/KDP10 Myriad |
Gavin | Falk | | Ireland | , | | I worked in J.Lyons in various subsidiary companies from Spring 1960 ヨ 1968 mid year I think! |
Derek | Falkner | | Canada | LEO III/1, III/70, | | |
Roy & Barbara | Farrant | | | LEO III/1, | Started as a trainee programmer on IBM 1401 in 1961 but in 1962 moved to operations on LEO III/I at Hartree House, shift leader and then Chief Op before moving to Baric in a sales capacity. Met Barbara Gray Christmas 1966 when she was working in an administration capacity also in Hartree House and we are still together 55 years later! Later career was in mainframe sales and management for ICL (including a spell in Hong Kong) and Univac before moving into software implementation services and consultancy culminating in role as CEO of a start up in Silicon Valley before retiring back in the UK | |
Steve | Farrow | | | LEO II/1, II/3, II/4, II/8, III/1, | May 1957 Training School, Minerva Road
Sept. 1959 Very junior engineer, II/1, Elms House
Jan. 1958 Commissioning Bull printer on II/3
March 1958 Chief Commissioning Engineer II/4
Jan. 1959 Commissioning's man on testing of Development's core store.
April 1959 Commissioning first core store on II/8; Tony Morgan on rest of machine.
September 1959 Started long haul as Chief Engineer building III/1.
Feb 1962 III/1 delivered. A year of engineering support.
Feb. 1963 A year of fault-finding on Mag Tape sustem.
Feb 1964 Commissioning Development's prototype for "Leo IV". Abandoned after in-fighting with English Electric and System 4 - stolen as chinese copy of RCA Spectra-70. | Thirty years as a computer scientist for the Medical Research Council. Building scanners. |
David | Favre | | | LEO III/1, | Joined 1964 Programmer Hartree House Think approx 3 years duration LEO III Richard Shops Kimball TagsWas changed to EELM in period | Now 63 years old. Self Employed/Retired Management Consultant in Strategic Sales and Marketing. |
Jenny | Febry | | | , | | |
John | Ferguson | | Uk | LEO III/24, III/35 | Sept 67- Aug 68, Bath, EELM Aug 69 - Dec 69, Old Street EC1, Allied Foods | |
Georgina | Ferry | | | , | Author of LEO book . Member of LEO Foundation. Did not work for LEO | |
Chris | Fielder | | | , | | |
Michael | Finer | | | LEO III/26, III/34, | September 69-June 73. Based at Docus House, then Charles House, then Harmondsworth. Joined as a grad entrant, became a programmer then senior programmer (HEO grade). Programmed mainly in Intercode and a bit of CLEO from 69-71 then moved onto ICL | Guinness (1973-81),....,Founder (1989) and currently still M.D. of Infocube Ltd an IT services company specialising in BI/DW. Worked with Robin Pyburn a current LEO member. |
Mike & Sue | Finlay | | | LEO II/1, III, | Mike Programmed Bureau work on II/1 and was consultant for LEO III sales. Sue. Chief Programmer for bureau work on LEO II/5. | |
Kate & Mike | Fisher | Keen | | , | Mike
June 1962: joined LEO as peripheral equipment technician, 1964-7: instructor in enineering training school, 1967: left English Electric Computers to join Univac
Kate
LEO I Data prep, Op assistant 1953 LEO II Programming LEO II Programming Lecturing at Radley House until 1973 | Mike
Retired from computer industry in 2001 after 14 years as independent computer consultant. |
Guy | Fitzgerald | | | , | | |
Ed | Fitzhenry | | | , | | |
Jason | Fitzpatrick | | | , | | |
Jason | Fitzpatrick | | | , | | |
Mike | Fleming | | | , | early 1960s Hartree House | |
Lucas | Fletcher | | | , | | |
Paul | Fletcher | | | LEO III/13, | 12/9/1966 started as an operator at the BOC Group (LEO III/13). Retired from the BOC Group in November 2000. Became an Intercode (& machine code) programmer in 1968 (programming for a year before that; self taught as an operator). In 1969, wrote an IBM program that converted LEO files to IBM format. It ran, in production, for 7 years converting every daily, weekly and monthly LEO file to IBM format via a DEC PDP tape interface; the software including tape ECC for all LEO data. | IBM systems programmer; retired, in 2000, as BOC Group world wide technical services manager. |
John S. | Florentin | | UK | LEO III/6, III/14, | Shell-Mex BP - operator then programmer 1965-1967 | |
John | Forbes | | Canada | LEO II, III, | 1960 - 1969 Led Intercode Translator team Led Cleo Compiler team software support for LEO III and System 4 | |
Linda Ann | Forbes | Phillips | | LEO III/1, | | |
Helen | Ford | | | , | | |
Helen | Ford | | | , | | |
Tony | Ford | | | LEO III/4, | 1967-1971 LEO III at London Boroughs Joint Computer Committee, Greenwich. Systems Implementation Officer. Implementing local government computer systems for accounting, creditors, rates etc. | |
Richard | Forrester | | | , | | |
Ross | Forsyth | | USA | Leo 326 at Freemans, | Joined Freemans in 1968 as a trainee programmer. Learned CLEO and some machine code too. Moved on in '71, but stayed in the industry. | While I have fond memories of my first years as a programmer, working with the Leo 326, I didnメt keep any memorabilia ヨ not even a piece of paper tape (as proof of age).
At the time, I didnメt realize what a sophisticated machine I started on. When I left Freemans, hoping to work with IBM machines like all the other kids, I had lots of, モWell, this is primitiveヤ moments. Unfortunately, CLEO didnメt have the market appeal of COBOL. |
David | Forward | | | LEO III/6, III/14 | Programme/analyst/project leader Shell-Mex and BP 1961-1968 | |
Roy | Foster | | | , | | |
Kevin | Foulger | | | , | | |
Anne | Fowler | CrisfieldDenton | | LEO II, III, | Sept. 1962 started in Traing Department (under John Smythson) at Hartree House and Radley House, EalingProgressed from trainee to Senior Lecturer, (LEO III)Joined Personnel Team of Applied Programming Dept., (under Bob Gibson), at Euston Tower. (Engli | Worked for short period in ICL Putney.Left in December 1970 in anticipation of son no. 2Am now retired. |
Anthony | Fowler | | | LEO II/11, | Operator on LEO 2/11. Ford Motor Company, G building, Dagenham. 1961 - 1962 | |
John | Fowler | | | LEO III, | Cleo later intercode programmer with GPO NDPS 1968 - 1970 moved onto system 4.Later 1980 planner dismantling LEO 3 and replacement with 2960DMe for BT billing before "New Billing" available. | 1990 - Date NHS Information Security |
Barry & Margaret | Fox | | | , | | |
Mike | Fox | | | LEO III/17, III/28, | Joined EELM in 1966. Trained at Radley House in CLEO & Intercode Cat B Programmer on Quantity Surveying Suite for Coventry and Manchester Corporations, based at Hartree. Eventually managed all CAT B programmers. | Various technical and HQ management roles in ICL until 1998 including Worldwide Marketing Manager for Customer Service. Set up consultancy and worked with Royal Academy of Engineering encouraging pupils to choose engineering career. Handed business over to son and finally retired Aug 2011. |
Idris | Francis | | | LEO III | January 1963 - June 1965Circuit Design Engineer LEO III f and IV | |
Jeremy | Francis | | | , | | |
Roger | Francis | | | LEO III/4, | London Boroughs spent two months training in computers and Intercode at the Post Office's NDPS House in Stepney. For the remaining 8 months of that employment, I coded primarily in Intercode, with a little machine code and Cleo | Hoskyns |
Roger | Francis | | | , | | |
John | Franks | | | , | | |
Alan | Fraser | | UK | BOC, Manchester | Trainee Computer Operator, 1968 | 1968-1971 HND in Business Studies with Computing, Twickenham College of Technology. 1968 - 1974 Automobile Association Programmer, Systems Analyst, Project Leader in charge of the first Car Insurance Quotations system, 3 insurers, batch system took about |
Richard | Fraser | | USA | LEO II/1,III/1, III/21, | 1963 - 1966 at Cadby Hall and Hartree House. 1967- 1968 Totalisator Board. | |
Colin | Freeman | | | , | Minerva Road (1959-65) R&D engineer. | CEO Stoy Haward& Horwath International |
Martin | Fuggle | | | , | | |
Nigel | Furness | | UK | LEO III/70, | Field Service Engineer LEO 326 ICL Bristol 1980/81 Decommissioned machine then moved on to 2980and then 2966 before leaving company | Now retired. Went into teaching computing at Tech. College Now in College management but still teaching! |
Margaret | Gagg | Dyson | | LEO II/3, | Stewart & Lloyds Corby 1961 - 1963 Programmer | |
Peter | Gallagher | | Australia | LEO III/30, III/37, III/43, | EELM - Minerva Road Acton At a guess 1965 to 1967I was involved with a number of LEO III installs. The ones I remember are :- - Royal Bank of Scotland (Edinburgh) - BICC (Lancashire) - Goverment (Portsmouth) | I emigrated to Australia in 1968 and started working for IBM. I'm still here (at IBM) |
Ray | Gallet | | UK | FREEMANS Ltd. LEO 326 /LEO 360, | 1965 Operator / Shift Leader / Chief op / Data Control Manger / Data Base Administrator /Retired 1993/ | |
David | Gambling | | | LEO III/6, III/14, III/29, III/31, | 1964-1970 Intercode programmer | |
Mikel or Michael | Ganley | | Australia | LEO II/8, | I worked as a programmer at Standard Motor Company from 1963 until the LEO was decommissioned. | |
Derek | Gardiner | | United States | LEO machines | LEO career | At LEO as a hardware engineer from 1961 to 1964. Have sent more info and a picture |
John | Gardner | | | LEO III/1, | Joined LEO (and its successors) May 1962 as trainee on LEO III/1 at Hartree House, Left 1996 as one of the Chief Programmers on LEO III/1 main specialisation was Payrolls, and Share Registration and Supplies.' | Previously EMI Research, After LEO: Honeywell, Hoskyns, London Transport |
Martin | Garthwaite | | | , | LEO 326 at Lyons as support person for English Electric LEO Marconi/English Electric Computers. LEO 326 at Hartree House Bureau.1967 to 1989 Worked for English Electric LEO Marconi which became English Electric Computers and then merged after 18 months or | LEO succeeded by two IBM 1440s and thenIBM System /360. I became a systems programmer. And quite a few things since them. |
Jeannette | Garwood | | | , | | Not a LEO employee ヨ but a psychologist of many years standing applying theory to LEO's use and development as part of MSc work ヨ gone back to University after many years |
Alan | Gearing | | | LEO II/5, II/7, III/1, III/4 | 1962 Joined LEO. Shift Operator on Bureau machines II/5, III/1; then 1963 on London Boroughs III/4 at Asylum Road then Stockwell Street, Greenwich. | 1964 LBJCC Chief Op1969 LBJCC Standards Officer1973 LBJCC Systems Analyst, System 4 |
Mike | Gifford | | USA | , | | Rank |
John | Gigg | | | LEO III/18, | Trainee programmer, Cerebos Foods Ltd 1964 - 1965 Programmer 1965 - 1966 | |
Catherine | Gillespie | | | LEO III/26 | I was a machine operator at Charles Housefrom 1965-1967 which was my first real job. We all had a marvellous time working there but I left to learn aboutIBM 360s. | Career: I remained in Operations and worked at:-
CEGB 1967-1974 IBMs
Stock Exchange 1974-1974 IBM
Contracting at IBM Havant and Chiswick (1975-1975)
Shell Uk Ltd. IBM, Data Control, Univac 9030, 1976-1977.
CMG Uk Ltd. Burroughs 4700, 1977-1980
Shell Uk Ltd. As above. 1980-1990
St. Thomas' Hospital. Vax. 1990-1991
MOD. PC Support, 1993-1996.
Peregrine Systems - Help desk - 1996-1998
RBTSB - Y2K bug contract, IBM/MVS 1998-1999
Shell Systems International. - PCs, Compaq,
RS6000s, 2000-present. |
Christopher | Glanusk | | | , | | |
John | Godwin | | South Africa | LEO III/2, | History: Was recruited by LEO Fantl and joined in Jan 1964 as a programmer. LEO III/2 at LEO Computer Bureau, Johannesburg, SA.Remained with the bureau through meny changes of ownership until 1986. | 1980 (or so) transferred to another group company Worked with LEO Fantl for many years |
John | Godwin | | Canada | LEO III/System 4, | 1965 ヨ 1969 Worked in offices above Whiteleys converting RCA Spectra 70 OS to System 4 | Worked in many IT capacities for Govt. of Canada for 33 years |
John | Goldsworthy | | | LEO III/5, | 1963 -1965Programmer using Intercode and Cleo | 30 years at Shropshire County Council until retirement.Started as Analyst/Programmer finished as Software Development Manager |
Barry | Gomm | | Australia | , | On LEO lll installations at Shell Oil Co. Aust. and Colonial Mutual in Melbourne Somewhere about 1964-1065. | |
Bill | Gooch | | | , | | |
Jeff | Goodenough | | UK | LEO II/5, LEO II/7, | The history and specifications. 1963 - engineer 11/5, 11/7 Hartree House | Maintenance engineer, Hartree House, early sixties |
Phillip | Goodhart | | | LEO III/12, | At Minerva Road under AH Headley. 1961-63 IIIF Circuit Design Engineer 1963-67 326/System 4 Drawing Office Administrator | 1968-73 GKN-Servotomic: Gas Central Heating Engineer and Production Manager. 73 on- Freelance General Engineer |
John | Goodman | | Surrey | LEO III | 1964 to 1969, KDF9 programmer, then sales of both KDF9 and LEO 3 facilities, especiicle Routing. | IT sales and Internet product management since 1968. |
John | Goodwin | | | LEO II/4, | Computer Operator & Technical Support 9th July 1962 - 30 November 1963 | |
Peter | Gordon | | UK | LEO 3s for GPO Premium Bonds, | First job, introduction to Computers, fun start to working life. | 1963 Leo programmer, through Univac to Fujitsu project director on defence contracts. |
Terry | Gorman | | | LEO III/6 and III/23., | Shell-Mex BP Manchester and Hemel Hempstead 1965-1970 | |
Emil | Gottwald | | USA | LEO III, 326, | Joined LEO at Minerva Road in 1964 after graduating from Queen Mary College London with BSc (Hons) in Physics. Worked with Dr. "Fred" Winterbottom. | Emigrated to USA in 1966 and worked for Xerox Corp. in Rochester NY until 2001 primarily in Software development in the Engineering and Research depts. |
Peter | Gould | | | LEO III/1, | 1966 - 1976 LEO III/I, Customer/Package Installation (All systems), Customer Installation Manager | Career: 1976 - 1979 Managing Director of Contour Computing Services Ltd (10% shareholder)providing computer services to group of LTD & PLC companies with some external bureaux facilities. 1979 - Present. Abbey Computer Services Ltd. Own privaltely owned Ltd Company:- 1979 - 1992 Abbey Computer Services Ltd Company as vehicle for agency and direct contracts working in UK, Europe and USA in a variety of rolls from programming to DP Manager and mainly on the Datapoint hardware platform (Minis). Also establishing small Datapoint based bureaux in SE London. 1993 - 1996 Study for Joint Honours Degree in IT and Science. (Failed to complete third year due to establishing retail business Oriel). 1996 - Present. Establishing Oriel as specialist computer store (retail) and PC Support Centre. Local, Kent, based centre for all IT things from networks to latest games consoles, (Anyone looking for an XBOX?) |
Dermot Francis | Grace | | | LEO I, II/1, | C1960 to 1965 | |
Geoff | Granger | | UK | LEO III/1, LEO III/45, City Tote Machine, | Cadby Hall and Hartree House, Lyons Rugby Club | Started work for EE/LEO/Marconi at Hartree House |
Iain | Grant | | | , | | |
Robert | Grant | | | LEO II, III, | PostLEO: I have a solid brass (I think) LEO Tape Drive capstan. It makes a great paper weight, which I can donate. I'm leaving for Oz soon - so if you want it you need to act quickly. | Joined Plessey 1966 Management Services Executive Automation Group, Publisher Computer Users Year Book & other Computer Reference Books, retired 1983 |
Chris | Gray | na | UK | LEO III Charles House London (2 machines used) | Only PO work for billing | I took on a temporary job as computer operator for the Post Office between Aug 77 and April 78 at Charles House on the Leo III, while waiting to join the BBC. I have had a career in Broadcast engineering for 40 plus years including some work on computer m |
Ian | Gray | | | , | | |
Robert (Bob) | Graystock | | United Kingdom | Leo 3 System 4 Product intro.. Russia, Serbia, Croatia, S. Africa | People | Started as shift engineer 3-13 asked to go to Russia in 1969 stayed 5 years Then to Serbia as chief Engr, On to Croatia.. Then to S. Africa to sort "New product" problems. Accepted a position as Engineering Mngr |
Robert | Grazebrook | | | , | | |
Mike | Green | | | LEO III/13,6,14,29,42,17,19,36,69,66,44, | Started at the formation of ICL in 1968 at BOC Manchester (on Creed paper tape). Under Brian Hope I developed knowledge of LEO III and LEO 326, went on to nation wide support on LEO covering principally Dept for National Savings. | From LEO I went on to support on 1900 and S series. I moved from Lytham to Pilkington Glass when S4 came along and then moved to the NE in 1974. I went on to S series and VME/K before getting out of engineering in 1983 to project management with the DHSS |
Peter | Griffith | | USA | LEO I, II/1, II/5, II/7, III/1, III/2, | (I was part of the team that moved the software/customers off LEO I. I was part of the LEO II Standard Payroll team and I was the primary author of the Standard Payroll Suite for LEO III) LEO Computer Bureau,South Africa English Electric LEO (South | Career: In 1968 I started a consulting firm in New York City - P.C. Griffith & Co. The firm is still in business today. I have retired to Naples Florida. |
Catherine | Griffiths | | | , | | |
Valerie | Grose | Bond | | LEO | I I worked at J Lyons 1956 -1966 in the Personnel Dept. In the office next door was Maureen Henley, secretary to T R Thompson. John Pinkerton used to regularly come into her office and Mr John Simmons' office was opposite. I served his tea frequently. I remember the excitement of this amazing new invention. | |
Robert | Grout | | | , | | |
Peter | Grundig | | | , | | |
Alan | Gudge | | | , | | |
Gloria | Guy | Smith | | LEO I, | Worked approx. 1 year in 1954 doing data input to Seimans Schuckert machine for payroll run. | Currently working as tech.support and Customer Relations Manager for Britain's leading language learning software company. Taken up writing, freelance articles, various projects. |
ROBERT | HARRIS | | UK | GPO/326, | PROGRAMMING | PROGRAMMER |
Graham | Hale | | | BT LEO 326 | 1972 CLEO programmer on telephone billing.
1973 Intercode programmer
1975 Carried out some modifications to the Master Program to improve tape handling times. | Continued with BT until 2008 specialising in Requirements capture and definition. |
David | Hall | | United Kingdom | LEOIII/10 Board of Trade Census Office | | Civil Service 1960-1996 LEO Operator/Shift Leader from 1967-69. ICL shift leader/Manager 1969-1996 |
John | Hall | | | LEO II/5, II/7, | History: Joined Jan 1961 as trainee op. progressed to Shift Leader and became Chief Op in June '65. In November '65, transfered to Customer Training on KDF9 and spent much of '66 at Nottingham University and Marconi Chelmsford. In Jan '67 Transfered to Marconi as their KDF9 Chief operator and later moved on to their System 4/70. Left for pastures new in '73. | After Marconi, I was Ops manager at University College Hospital and then with House of Fraser on wide area network and voice systems planning and support. Retired in 2000. |
Michael | Hall | | | LEO III/12, III/13, III/42, | Trainee Programmern BOC - Intercode Programmer BOC - Intercode & CLEO; Sales Accounting related applications. Senior Programmer Renold Chains - Intercode & CLEO; Manufacturing related applications. | Career: AEI Cable Programmer Analyst IBM 1401 IBM 360 "machine Code" & Cobol; Manufacturing related applications.
AEI Transformers Systems Analyst/ Programmer PL/1; Manufacturing related applications.
In variety of roles, application and industries with |
Mike (Frederick) | Hall | | USA | LEO II, | Service engineer from around January 1962 to November 1963. | After leaving LEO I joined the Univac Division of Remington Rand which became Sperry which became Unisys. I'm presently working in the Marketing Division defining market requirements for out large scale mainframes. |
Mike | Hally | | | , | | |
Wilhelm | Hamann | | South Africa | LEO 3/2 in Johannesburg, | IT excellence and professionalism | I am the sole Founder and originator of the revolutionary and disruptive DBI World new Super Internet that will be setting new standards of IT excellence and guaranteed security of every one's data and privacy and is the ultimate solution to all of the cu |
Michael | Hancock | | England | Customer - Shell Mex and BP | Chief Programmer | Previous involvement with Hec2 1954-57 |
Len | Handley | | | LEO II, III, | Design Dept. of LEO Computers at Minerva Road, Acton Design Manager until the merger with English Electric Computers | Elliott-Automaton, Molins Ltd. Munford & White Ltd.,Sargon Inc. USA |
Raman | Hansjee | | Denmark | LEO III/1, | LEO Computers 1962-1965 | |
Robin | Happe | | | LEO III, | Started at Hartree House 1961; went to Australia 1963, worked at Shell Melbourne installation. | currently with iOra |
Peter | Harding | | Canada | LEO II/4, II/5, | Worked at Hartree house and Ford Between 1962 and 1965Moved to EE-LEO - worked on KDF8 at Lloyds bank | Wordwide technical support with Univac, Unisys, Amdahl and IBM On their largest mainframes and systems |
Bob | Hare | | | , | Computer Programmer for Freemans using CLEO/ Intercode and LEO M/c, some new programming and conversions to IBM: Feb/ 1972 - Oct/ 1976 | |
Roger | Harford | | UK | Leo 3 at Cerebus Foods Ltd, | Historical | Learnt to program in Cleo for Operational Research work |
David | Harmer | | | LEO III/1, | 1965-70 LEO III/ Hartree house et al | |
Roger | Harris | | | LEO III/7, III/46, | History: : I worked for J Lyons Brook Green as a computer operator for about 5 years - sorry the dates escape me.
I worked with:
Alex Tepper Richard Hunter Bob Trotter Dennis Wilkins Peter B (became IT Manager) Don Kelshall Beau (nickname) John C (Welsh) Pat O Brien | Now IT Director for a fundraising company. Pat O Brien now owns his own IT services company for Siemens/Nixdorf |
Tony | Harris | | | LEO III, | Operations 1967 to 1972 at Smiith & Nephew Birmingham | |
Alan | Harrison | | | LEO III/27, | 1972-1974 - worked as a programmer on the project to migrate Freemans' DP systems from LEO to IBM hardware. This involved rewriting their CLEO / Intercode programmes in COBOL / Assembler. As part of the process of learning CLEO I also made some. | Currently a technical consultant with LogicaCMG looking for a new project. |
Ernest | Harrison | | | LEO II/5 | Shift Operator | Leo/Rolls Royce/ Ciba Geigy/IBM |
John | Hartley | Hartley | United Kingdom | LEO III/I, III/45 | Employment history relevant to LEO: English Electric LEO Marconi Computers Limited, Hartree House and Durlachers1969 to 1970 (I think that�s when the merger with ICT happened) LEO III/I and III/45 Started as operator and ended up as deputy shift lead | Fully retired, living in Islington, enjoying life, learning French and Italian, watching rugby (Harlequins), campaigning for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods |
Allan | Harvey | | | , | I joined Computer Field Maintenance in the 70's at the time that III/23 was relocated from Dunlop to Freemans to be a site maintenance engineer CFM eventually took over maintenance of III/27 in the adjoining room as well and I ended up as Engineer in Charge of both machines. Moved on in CFM to Area Supervisor but still provided LEO support to II/43 and II/55 in HM Dockyards (Chatham & Portsmouth) Left CFM to join DPCE ヨ both being absorbed by Granada Computer Services by which time I was Regional Manager | |
Mike | Hatch | | | LEO III | Early 70's with I believe ICL as then was to provide onsite service the 326, based on previous experience with Ampex TM4 tape drives. Also worked Elliot 803B, SDS 9300, Dec PDP7 and PDP11-45. | |
Greg | Hayes | | | LEO III/21, | LEO III at Tote Investors Ltd Blackfriars, London 1965 - 1967 | !967 onwards software programmer working on COBOL compiler then subsequently other compilers and general software. MD of software house now. |
John | Haynes | | | LEO III/1, | Between 1969 and 1970 worked on LEO (Hartree House) in an "ad hock" basis when we didn't have any work on the System 4/50 (Spectrum 70/45) in Newman Street. | System Support Manager and then Hardware Software Planning Manager - Baric. Principal Technology Consultant - UIS. Consultant - Racal Milgo, Telecommunication and Technology Manager - Inchcape Plc. Consultant - Concert, Principal Technology Consultant - BT Operate. and finally retired. |
Peter | Haysom | | | , | | |
Terry | Hayter | | | LEO III/55 | Portsmouth Post Office Computing Centre March 1968 - October 1969 | Moved to IBM in 1969 through to 1999 when Telecomms unit bought by AT&T. Worked at AT&T until retired Feb 2006 |
Andrew | Healey | | | LEO III/22, III/42, | Operator / Chief Operator LEO III Renold Ltd 1967-73. BOC rented time from Renold at weekends. Eventually Renold rented w/end time on Heinz LEO III in London before acquiring second LEO from Heinz. | |
Graham | Heath | | Australia | LEO III/8, | Employed from Feb 1969 to Mid 1971 LEO III at Tubemakers of Australia. I was at first a Trainee computer operator and became a shift leader | |
Raymond | Hedley | | | LEO II/3, | Programming maintenance: payroll and stores 1960 Stewarts & Lloyds Corby | Ferranti Pegasus Steel Co. of Wales 1960 - 1962 IBM 1401 Steel Co of Wales 1962 - 1963 Icl 1900 series, System 4 etc |
Leon | Heller | | | , | Student appretice EE later EELM Kidsgrove 60 to 63. Spent six months in 1963 at LEO, Minerva Road, working on LEO III development. Designed audible monitor circuit, logic probe, and tested "banjos" (read-only memory assemblies, IIRC). | |
Inge | Hempstead | | | LEO II/5, | | |
Angus | Henderson | | | LEO II/1, | As a member of Lyons Catering 'Estates & Services'I helped service the dedicated air conditioning plant that served the LEO 11 computer suite between September 1965 & January 1972 | |
Peter | Henham | | UK | LEO III Tote (Horserace Totalisator Board), | 1972 to 1975. LEO III Operator until machine replaced by ICL 1902S. | Have worked in IT ever since |
Peter | Henham | | | d design roles within Financial Services. Now retired, age 67, I represent, probably, the last generation who worked with LEO machines. | 1972 to 1975. LEO III Operator until machine replaced by ICL 1902S. | The Tote has a lot to answer for, as I also developed a lifelong passion for horse racing, which has taken me to every racecourse in Britain (Yes, all 60!). Other interests include sports in general, walking and reading classical literature. |
Peter | Henman | | | , | | |
Alan | Herbert | | | , | | |
Peter | Hermon | | | LEO II/2, III/3 | Joined Sept. 1956, left Oct. 1959was progressively programmer, asistant manager to D.T.Caminer, senior consultant.Was in charge of Imperial Tobacco installation, LEO II/2. | Joined BOAC and BA in charge of worldwide real-time systems.Later joined main boards of BOAC & BA.Now retired. |
John & Sue | Herning | | | , | | |
John | Heselton | | Canada | LEO I | Engineer 1957-1959 | |
Peter | Hetherington | | | LEO II/1, II/5, III/1, | Joined LEO on Dec 15th 1962. Worked on 11/1 in Cadby Hall, then 11/5 and subsequently III/1 at Hartree House. Later moved to Support on Spectra and System4. | |
David | Hext | | | , | | |
John | Higham | | | , | | |
John | Hill | | | LEO III/21, | Joined EELM/EEC on Junior Engineer scheme September 1967 Stayed with the company until I took redundancy | |
Norman | Hill | | | LEO III/45, | Worked as Shift Leader at Wedds from 1970 until it was closed down. | |
Roy | Hill | | | , | | |
Bob | Hills | | Australia | LEO III/49, | Chief Operator at Shell | |
Leslie & Jean | Hillyer | | UK | LEO III, III/26, | Engineer Minerva Road and Charles House. Jean operator Charles HouseProgramming and Systems roles at Commonwealth Aircraft, Toyota, Fleetways Transport, Various consulting companies (including my own), IT/IS management roles Murray Goulburn (Dairy Company), Lockwood Locks, GM role software company, CTO / CIO roles with NZDB/Fonterra, Australian Home Care / MS Society. | |
Joan | Hinchcliffe | Abrahams | | LEO III/11, | September 1964 to September 1965 | |
Denis | Hitchens | | Australia | LEO III/15 and /20 | recruited mid (Jul-Aug)1964
Operator
Shift Leader | Australasian Marketing Manager Hewlett Packard 1981-5 |
John | Hobbs | | Australia | LEO III/8, III/10, III/20, | 1963/4 engineer training and commissioning at Min. Rd. and on site at III/10 at EastcoteIII/20 at CML Melbourne, 1964/6 Also support for III/8 Tubemakers and for III/15 at Shell. | |
Colin | Hobson | | | LEO I, II/1, III/1, III/2, III/18, | Sep 1961 - Feb 1968Cadby Hall on both LEO I and II/1 as operator. Moved to Hartree approx 65 on LEO III/1 (and all the other machines we borrowed) then on to System4 programme testing. | Hawker Siddeley 1968-1970BT (Post Office)1970 - 1990 including a spell as the technical manager for Prestel.Own consultancy company to present. |
Victor | Hodge | | | , | 195? - 196? then ICL to 1969 | |
John | Hoey | | Australia | LEO III/8, III/15, III/20, III/49, | 196?1III/8 Tubemakers,Sydney;1964, III/15, Shell, Melbourne;III/20 Colonial Mutual Life,Melbourne;III/49,Shell,ニ Melbourne. Says as he has worked on all Oz LEOs he expects a gong from "Elizabeth Windsor". | |
David | Holdsworth | | | , | | |
Geoff | Holland | | UK | LEO III/1 | LEO Bureau Consultant and Sales Manager1962 -1965 | Career in computing services marketing & management with ITT, Control Data subsequently with own company Intra Sytems & consultancy in CRM until 2000. Now retired cruising European canals & rivers in own boat |
Scott | Holland | | UK | General interest in LEO and Lyons | Neither | I've worked as a Business Systems Analyst for 15 years. Mostly at Transport for London |
Tim | Holley | | | , | | |
Andy | Holliman | | UK | LEO III/19, | I was a computer operator for the LEO Bureau. We processed the rates and other programs for a collection of London Boroughs. 1968 - 1970 | |
Richard | Hollingworth | | | Film Maker | | |
Stan | Holwill | | UK | , | 1947 -Five years engineering apprenticeship at Clifford & Snell in Sutton Surrey. 1953 National Service where I developed an interest in electronics.
January 1956 ヨ June 1956 J.Lyons, junior computer engineer working on LEO at Cadby Hall. In June 1956 worked on LEO II prototype being commissioned in Olaf Street. July 1956 moved to LEO Computers Ltd in charge of engineering maintenance, LEO ll/1 moved to Elms House. Feb 1958-Nov 1958 I/C commissioning & installing of LEO ll/3 at Stewart&Lloyds working for Peter Mann. Nov 1958ヨ1961 Commissioning Manager LEO IIメs, at Minerva road. Including involvement in Duke of Edinburghメs visit in 1960. 1961 ヨ 1962 Maintenance Manager LEO II & LEO III. 1962 ヨ 1963 Development Engineer LEO II and Leo III magnetic tape. 1963 ヨ Dec 1970 Manager of the Maintenance Development Department. 1970 -1991 various work at ICL, then early retirement. | |
Graham | Honeywill | | Finland | LEO III/4, III/19, III/21, | Joined Racehorce totalisator board in 1970 as computer operator Left in 1972 and joined LBJCC until moving to Australia in 1975. | |
Alan | Hooker (Senior) | | | , | | |
Barry | Hooper | | Australia | LEO III/5, III/15 | 1960 to 1962 with CAV. Spent some initial time programming for the LEO II.Migrated to Australia in 1962 and joined Shell Company of Australia in 1963 who had a LEO III. They in turn moved on to IBM computers. | Worked developing on-line interactive systems on DEC PDP computer from 1976. Retired in 2002 as I.T. Manager at Rural Finance Corporation in Melbourne. Was a fellow of the British Computer Society but am now retired. |
David | Hooper | | | LEO II/7 | Joined LEO in August 1960 - trained at offices in Queensway W2 and became a "Computer Engineer". Worked at Edmonton and left company in late 1961 or early 1962. | |
Doug | Hooper | | | , | | Career: Bump into a few guys from time to time - Mike Davy who did a lot of programming in CLEO for Ever Ready and worked at Hartree House, also Dave Berg who was a LEO operator at Ever Ready. |
Rodney | Hornstein | | | , | October 1962 joined LEO as trainee consultant.Stayed with LEO-English Electric LEO-EELM-ICL until October 1979. | Left ICL as Director of Marketing.Currently a business angel investor and is chairman of three software companies and a consultancy. |
Bob | Howard | | | LEO III, 326, | I joined English Electric in Kidsgrove in November 1964 as an assembler.In 1965 I was promoted to night shift chargehand one of the departments I was over was assembling LEO equipment including I think the last Autolector that was built.I moved to the Wi | |
Brian F | Howard | | France | , | | |
David | Hoyle | | | LEO II/1 | 1956 to 1957June Trainee programmerApril Trainee Maintenance EngineerSeptember left | 1961 Chief Programmer - Beecham Group1964 Consultant - Robson Morrow1967 Managment Services Manager UB1972 MS Director UB1988 Chairman&MD Process Computing Ltd. |
Jack | Huggins | | | LEO II/2, II/10, | W D & H O Wills. About 1959 to 1972 as an engineer | |
Trevor | Hughes | | | LEO III, | 1961 Joined Leo from Lyons Engineering at Abby Rd. and Park Royal.
Worked in the peripheral commissioning dept., under Alan Sheeley / Alan Thompson.
Works Manager was George Manley who became Quality Manager at Kidsgrove factoty.
We were building the first transistorised Leo III at that time; with Alex. Woolard, John Humphries, John Maltby | 1965 we all moved to Kidsgrove and eventually merged with GEC and Plessey.In 1969 wew all moved to Winsford to make the new System 4 range.In 1980 the (ICL) Winsford site was closed down amd made us all redundant. |
Ian | Hulley | | UK | LEO 3/7, LEO 326 | BICC Leigh Lancashire 1965 - 1966J Lyons & Company Cadby Hall 1966 - 1976 | |
John | Hume | | | LEO III | Worked at Cadby Hall and Hartree House with David Caminer. Moved to LEO from the Lyons icecream factory. | Qualified accountant. Left LEO when it merged with ICT. Friend of Ray Hennessey |
Peter | Hunt | | | , | | |
Kenneth | Hutton | | | , | | |
Chris | Hutton-Penman | | | , | | |
Jeff | Hyams | | | , | | |
Trevor | Hyland | | | LEO III/16, | Joined ICL from the RAF in 1969 trained as a LEO Engineer in August 1969. Maintained the LEO III at Kayser Bondor Ltd until its close down in 1972. | Continued as an Engineer in ICL on 1900 & 2900. Account Support 1982-1992. FM Contract on CHOTS MoD 1992-2002. Took VR. |
Carole | Hynam | Fudge | UK | Leo 11/1 | Old employee of W.D. And H.O. Wills Bristol | Worked on the first Leo in 1957/58 |
Roger | Iddles | | | LEO II/5, II/7, III/1, | 1961 - 1968 Mainly the Bureau but latterly testing peripherals and System 4 prototypes at Kidsgrove. My S4 machine code and Assembler would probably still work on IBM mainframes today! | Just a great time and sorrow that our customers and management hadn't the faith to invest in the UK industry. |
Ray | Ivatt | | | LEO I | Engineer on LEO1 1963-1964, Lector and Autolector, | System 4 Leicester and Nottingham, 1906A Nottingham University, 2950 British Rail and GPO Derby, DRS6000 East midlands, Vienna Sytems East Midlands. |
Albert | Jackson | | | , | | |
Martin Raymond | Jackson | | | LEO III/4, III/94, | History: In October 1968 I joined LBMSU as a trainee programmer and learnt INTERCODE at Docos House (Post Office). I worked in Greenwich and transferred to Hackney when LBMSU separated into LBJCC in the south in 1969. I worked as a maintenance programmer looking after Payroll, Creditors, Rates and Rents systems for LB Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets. I learnt CLEO and wrote Vaccination & Immunisation programs. | Career: In 1972, LBMSU formed LOLA (London On-line Local Authorities) for above boroughs plus Hillingdon to develop on-line applications using databases, which meant the demise of the LEO systems and a re-write using IBM IMS databases and PL/1 as the main programming language. However, as an interim, IBM wrote a translator that reproduced INTERCODE on the IBM, and initially the old LEO programs ran on the IBM 360/50 until the systems were replaced. LOLA was outsourced to CFM in 1993 who became part of ICL. In 2002, the Tower Hamlets part of the contract was won by ITNET and I now work for them. I still have my INTERCODE coding cribsheet and a CLEO manual. |
Mike & Helen | Jackson | | | , | | |
Tony | Jackson | | | LEO III/17, | LEO III/17 Manchester City Council from 1963 to 1975 | |
Chris | Jacob | | | , | | |
Alan Laurence | Jacobs | | | LEO I, II, III, | LEO Computers 1956 -1966 Programmer - Project Manager - City Office Manager | BOAC/British Airways 1966 -82, Head of Computer services J Sainsbury 1982 -91, Director of Information Systems |
Eva | Jacobs | | | Wife of Alan Jacobs | | |
Paul | Jagger | | | , | | |
Susanne | James | | | , | | |
Suzanne | James | Selby | USA | Chamber of Mines, South Africa, | After I had graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara,with a BA in Economics, I traveled to South Africa. In 1964, after spending a year as a socialite, I was bored and answered an Advertisement for a position with LEO Computers. I took an all day fascinating examination. When I was hired, I was told that I (to my amazement) had the top score of 400 applicants. I loved my job. I learned CLEO and to improve my knowledge and skills took the Operators Course after work. I was assigned programmer/analyst application projects with the Chamber of Mines. I took over their share evaluation applications when the guru left. A top executive of the client was my mentor and I learned the gold mining business. I was sent down over a mile into the deepest mine in the world until fairly recently, the East Rand Pretoria Deep Mine. This was part of my education on gold mining. With great regret, after approximately a year I had to resign in order to return to the United States, where I went to work for IBM.
| My job with LEO was the smartest thing I ever did--because it led me to a long, fun, challenging, continual upgrading my education, traveling domestically and abroad, exciting, fascinating career in IT research, design, development, implementation and management. I worked with Educational Institutes, Government Agencies, and many Fortune 1000 Corporations.
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Warren | James | | | , | | |
John | Jarvis | | UK | LEO III, | English Electric-LEO/EELM etcAugust 1964 to March 1968 | |
L John | Jefferies | | | , | | |
Henry-Jones | Johnson | | Mauritius | , | I recently completed a project for my BSc programme. I want to be part of the LEO Society and contribute to preserving its history | Through my project I intend to spread the word about LEO and the LEO Society |
Jim | Johnson | | | , | Joined LEO February 1963, maintenance engineers course at Minerva Road.Went to III/1 at Hartree House.Autumn 1963 joined CAV at Acton as Shift Engineer, working under Shorty Weston.(Fellow engrs.- Arthur Foote, Keith Dobson, Ernie Aylott, Tony Zak.) | 1970 - 1972 Shift Engineer at LACES; 1972 - 74 Supervisor at LACES; 1974 -76 Supervisor System 4, West of London;1976 - Small Systems, (Singer) then on to M & S Retail until now. |
Roger | Johnson | | | , | | |
Alistair | Johnston | | | LEO III/51, | GPO site, Craigmillar, Edinburgh | I joined EELM as a trainee service engineer on leaving the RAF early in 1967. I attended the training school in Ealing before assisting with the commissioning of the machine in Minerva Road, and was involved with the installation and commissioning on site in Craigmillar. I then worked shifts as a site engineer until I left to join Honeywell in 1968. |
Nigel | Joinson | | | , | | |
Ann | Jones | | UK | , | Lyons history generally | London guide |
Ann | Jones | | United Kingdom | , | Lyons history generally | London guide |
Cliff | Jones | | | LEO II/5, II/9, | | Esso, Ford, IBM, Manchester University, Harlequin, Newcastle University |
David | Jones | | Australia | LEO III/1, III/15 | early 60s Hartree House, then Melbourne Australia | |
Glyn | Jones | | | LEO III/27, | Business Analyst/Project Manager 1970-1988 | Cap Gemini: RHM; Pensions Trust; Admiral/CMG (with various assignments); Churchill/RBS Insurance |
Michael | Jones | | | LEO III/26, 90, | Computer operations 1964 - 1977LEO III & LEO 326; Post Office, Charles Hse W14 | |
Mike | Josephs | | Israel | LEO III/2, | 1957 Cadby Hall, 1960 Johannesburg 1961-63 Hartree House 1963-65 Minerva Road Product Planning | |
Tony | Joyce | | Australia? | , | | |
RON | KIRBY | | UK | Leo II/I at Cadby Hall, | I give history talks to local organisations and one of them is the stroy of Joe Lyons and Leo | I stayed in areas related to computers for all my working life |
Alan | Kay | | UK | Academic | | 2003 Turing Award, etc. (type "Alan Kay" into Google ...) |
Jim | Keating | | Ireland | LEO III, | Computer Operator. BARIC. Hartree House, Queensway, London.Started February 1972. Finished May 1974. | Currently I.T. Manager with large Nissan Dealer in the Midlands (southern Ireland). |
Jim | Keating | | Ireland | Leo Iii/1 | Operator 1972/'74 | Hartree house |
Tony | Keeling | | | , | | |
Paul | Kelley | | | LEO III, | 1964-68 Field Engineering Training Minerva Road and Radley House | RCA and Unisys both US, Unisys UK retd 89 |
Frank | Kelly | | | , | | |
Charles | Kelman | | | , | | |
Donald | Kelshall | | Trinidad | LEO III/7, III/46, | Joined Lyons in Nov 1967, Autolactor and Xerox printer.Left Lyons in Nov 1979 | Currently MD of Savannah Computing Limited in Trinidad |
Ken | Kemp | | | LEO III/35 | Bristol LEO Regional Office. From trainee programmer 1964 to head of systems & programming after merger with ICT | Retired 2006 after whole career in developing & managing commercial computer applications |
David | Kennedy | | | LEO III/34, III/44, | NDPS Charles house, Kensington Aug 1968 to some time 1969 | Now training software Testers |
Ian | Kennedy | | Canada | LEO III/2 and LEO III/40 | Operator then programmer | Started with LEO, Johannesburg, in 1964 and worked in subsequent companies until ICL which I left in about 1974. Emigrated to Canada in 1976 where I continue to work in IT until I retired in 1998. |
Andrea | Kent | | | LEO III/1, | 1963-1968Joined LEO Computers at Hartree House as a programmer in development, left in 1968 as a senior programmer (maternity) | 1981-2002 worked for IT division of Mars Inc, took early retirement July 2002 |
Roger | Key | | Denmark | LEO III/14 III/23, III/26, | May 1962 Started as Junior Programmer at Hartee House. Initially worked with Dunlop. Next GPO telephone billing. Then ShellMex-BP (Strand and Hemel Hempstead. Bit hazy after that. | Career: 1966-68 CentreFile Ltd
1968-73 Systems Programming Ltd
- USA, Italy, Sweden, Denmark
1973-85 Air Canada, Toronto (Collins)
1985-91 SDC, Copenhagen (Collins)
1992-93 Retraining
1993-94 Dansk Industri, Copenhagen
1995 Dow Jones Telerate
1996-97 BFC Data, Copenhagen (UNIX)
1997-2004 Dan Net, Birkeroed (DBA) |
Carole | King | | | LEO II/1, | I was a recorder, used to do Ford of Daganems wages.I think I was there from 1957 but only for a few months, I was not very good.They made an industrial film I was in it but have never seen it, if any one knows where it can been seen I would be interested to see it. | |
John | King | | | , | | |
Veronica | King | | | , | Worked for Lyons -?? as a Secretary Later worked elsewhere. | |
John | Kingston | | | LEO III/26, | Post Office Telecommunications Management Services, 1972-4. Post Office Data Processing Service, 1974-6, working as a systems analyst on the Telephone Billing System, which was on Leo 326 machines. PostLeo: I was in IT all my career, latterly in project/programme management in banking | I was in IT all my career, latterly in project/programme management in banking |
Paul | Kingston | | | LEO III/1, III/45, | Worked for English Electric LEO at Hartree House as a marketing programmer from September 1965. Programmed in CLEO.. As an EEL marketing programmer I developed programmes on III/1 at Hartree, and on user machines (eg III/45 at Durlachers). | Continued to work for EELM, EEC, ICL, Fujitsu, Teamware. After working on LEO moved briefly to System 4, then Sales Development Org, then New Range Org in Putney. Later career in project management, then QA, then business development, then Product |
Axel | Kirby | | | LEO III/45, | Trainee programmer 1970 - 1972ish Wedd Durlacher Mordaunt/ Concord Computer Centre (CCC)Used CLEO and some Intercode | Career: Transferred within CCC to ICL1901
1975 joined Westminster City Council on Univac1100
1977 United Friendly Insurance on System4
1978 - 2002 Abbey National on various Sperry Unisys 1100 series as programmer/ analyst/ project leader/ consultant
Now retired. |
Ron | Kirk | | | LEO II, | Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd Corby Programmer | |
Bob | Kiteley | | | , | | |
Stephen | Kleiser | | | , | LEO Operator 1965- 1969 for SMBP Ltd at the Hemel Hempstead Computer Centre. LEO 360 / Shell Mex and BP Ltd | |
Berita & Michael | Knowles | Deller | | LEO I, II/1, | 1955 - 1958 LEO I Data Prep Supervisor Punchroom | |
Stephen | Knowles | N/A | Bermuda | LEO I, LEO II, LEO III and 326, | An operator then a programmer in the Tea Division | Having worked on LEOs and then IBM360 I came back to the Bahamas and was eventually working as a System specialist on the IBM System/34 and 36 and eventually the AS400 (iSeries) |
Stephen | Knowles | | | LEO Remembered | | |
Lex | Korngold | | Australia | LEO III/49, | Early in my career I worked on (as an operator and a programmer) Leo II and Leo III systems. I programmed in Intercode, Cleo, and sometimes a a machine code level. I worked for the Shell Company in Melbourne Australia, and have vivid memories of the -Boot- processes as well as paper tapes, huge -Analex- printers, and unbelievably heavy tape reels. When I was reading about the Leo I, I remember how advanced the Leo II was when it first appeared. | Programming and Systems roles at Commonwealth Aircraft, Toyota, Fleetways Transport, Various consulting companies (including my own), IT/IS management roles Murray Goulburn (Dairy Company), Lockwood Locks, GM role software company, CTO / CIO roles with NZDB/Fonterra, Australian Home Care / MS Society. |
Mark | La Brooy | | Australia | LEO III/26, | 1969/70 Computer Operations at Kensington Computer Centre, GPO, Charles House, Kensington. Left to gain experience with ICL computers | British Egg Marketing Board, Scaffolding (GB). Then emigrated to Australia. 1973 - 1990 ICL Australia, followed by Clear Tech (Novell), Apple Computer, PictureTel Teleconferencing, Sage-Tetra, Oakton. Now doing small-scale townhouse developments. |
Lynn | Labrum-Harvey | | France | , | | |
Jim | Lacy | | Ireland | LEO III/1, | Research Dept. Minerva Rd.1959 - 1961 LEO III/1 Circuit Design | Joined academic staff at University College Dublin,1961. retired Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering 1997 |
Alexander | Lai-Tan | | England | N/A | Former J Lyons employee | Based at Olaf Street Depot, used to take sales information to Cadby Hall to the late Mr Roy Steinke’s marketing and sales department. Approx 1963/64. Then moved to Greenford when van sales ceased, approx 1964, and worked a total of 35 years for J. Lyons |
Bob | Laing | | | LEO III/26, III/51, | Trained at GPO Charles House;1967-69,Operations,NDPS,Edinburgh | |
Mike | Lambden | | | LEO I, II/1, | Joined LEO July 1958 (from RAF where I had worked for a year on an Elliot 402), for Engineer Training.1959 employed at Lyons - Elms House on LEO II/1 and also occasionally on LEO I - eventually becoming Chief Engineer. | 1964 after merger with English Electric, moved on to KDF9 and then onto 1904A and then�Retired from ICL 1992. |
Neil | Lamming | | Australia | , | | |
Cyril | Lanch | | | LEO I, II/1, II/5, III, | LEO II/5 at Hartree House 1960, LEO I and II at Cadby Hall 1960 onwards; 1963 -1967 LEO III | Left J Lyons in 1969 and joined the Economist Intelligence Unit as a consultant. Worked at the Bank of England 1972-87, then in Financial Regulation until 1998. Re-trained as a classical acupuncturist and practised up to 2008. |
Frank | Land | | | LEO I, II, III, | Joined LEO as Programmer 1953, became systems analyst, consultant, chief consultant. Left English Electric, LEO, Marconi 1967. | Career: Joined London School of Economnics 1967 as Research Fellow in Management and Computer Services manager. Appointed Professor of Systems Analysis 1982. Appointed Professor of Information Management London Business School, 1086. Retired 1992 and appointed Visting Professor of Infformation mangement London SChool of Economics 1992, also Visiting Professor of Information management Leeds Metropolitan University 2000. Chairman of Trustees LEO Foundation. |
Ralph | Land | | | LEO III, | Joined 1958 -[1] Bureau Manager, LEO III/1 Hartree House [2] City Offfice Manger,EELM Enterprise House 1960/63 [3] EasternExport Division Manager 1963/73 EELM/ICL [4] Marketing Director- Western European Division (Paris) 1973/4 [5] Managing Director ICL Germany 1974/76 [6] Member Int Advisory Board ICL1976/79 | Then as a senior systems programmer at Barclays Bank at Radbroke Hall on IBM 370's 1974-1981. Then I worked as a freelance programmer and tester until 2010 at various companies.British Rail, JD Williams Lloyds TSB Bank, Woolworth amongst others. |
Roger | Landau | | | , | Hartree House 1964-65, Czechoslovakia 1965-74 | |
Ruth | Langhorn | O'Brien | UK | , | Possibly Leo 111 at Hammersmith working for Henry Telfer, the only programmer and on secondment to Jo Lyons in 1970/1. Was Leo 111 still being used in 1970/1 at Jo Lyons Ltd? I worked for Henry Telfer a subsidiary of Jo Lyons Ltd. at Cadby Hall, Hammersmith, I went to join the Jo Lyons programmers department 2 days a week next door for training.I worked there for a year. 1970-1971 | I then went on to work on IBM 360 machines as a programmer at Smith Kline and French Welwyn Garden City 1972-1974 |
Simon | Lavington | | | , | | |
Stuart | Lawrence | | | English Electric history | , | Worked for GEC/GEC Alsthom/Alstom/GE for 32 years with an interest in business history |
Michael Richard | Lawrenson | | | LEO III/4, III/7, III/26, III/56, | Joined Leo Computers Spring 1962; started at Minerva Road doing peripheral training courses:- Creed, Analex, Ampex.
C. 1963 Worked at Temporary site of Greenwich Council machine in Licensed Victuallers building, Asylum Rd.
C.1964 Received training for computers at Minerva Rd. and Hartree House.
C.1965 Site Engineer at J. Lyons (Leo III/7) Hammersmith. (Eng-I/C was John Sergeant). Occasionally worked on adjacent Leo II/1 and at Leo III at Charles House, (Eng-I/C 'Shorty Weston')
c.1969 Promoted to Eng-I/C for Leo IIIS going to HM Dockyards, Chatham. Also worked with Autolector Document Reader. | |
Mike | Lawrenson | | | LEO | | |
Mike | Lawson | | England | LEO III | Worked in Hartree House as a programmer | IT and oil industries |
Thelma | Leach | Lynch | | LEO III/26, | 1969 - 1971 Dept. for National Savings (London)1972 - 1973 PO Corporation, (London). | |
Dik | Leatherdale | | | , | | |
Paul | Leek | | | , | | |
Colin | Leeke | | UK | , | Educational | Head of Computing & ICT (no formal qualifications but an enthusiastic user and coder since 1983) |
John | Leighfield | | | Leo 2 in Ford Motor Company 1962-65, | Working on computer applications in Ford | Career in computer Services Industry. Set up ISTEL in the 1980s; Chairman Research Machines 1994-2011. President BCS 1993/4; President CSSA 1995/6; Master WCIT 2005/6. Trustee Archives of IT |
Leonard | Letton | | | LEO II, III, | EMPLOYED AS AN ISPECTOR IN CHARGE OF DEPT. AND LATER IN CHARGE OF INSPECTION AND TEST DEPARTMENTS. TOOK TEAMS TO INSTALATION SITES SUCH AS FORT-DUNLOP(X2),CUSTOM & EXCISE SOUTHEND,FORDS AT DAGENHAM(X2),MINISTRY OF PENSIONS AT NEWCASTLE(X).W.H.O' | WAS LATER EMPLOYED BY RANK WHARFEDALE ORG.BRADFORD, YORKS.AS WORKS MGR. ALSO JOHN BARNES EX LEO DIRECTOR OBTAINED EMPLOYMENT THERE. |
Diane | Lewis | Bray | | LEO II/1, II/5, | LEO 1957-60 @ Cadby Hall - Minerva Rd - Hartree House | |
John | Lewis | | | LEO I, II/1, II/5, | LEO etc. 1956-65 @ Cadby Hall - Minerva Rd - Hartree House - Portland Place | |
Peter | Lewis | | | , | | |
John | Lichnerowicz | | | , | None | systems Programmer on English Electric LEO Marconi KDF9 and various ICL, DEc, Prime and HP computers Worked on tvarious minis attached to the NPL packet switched network Interested in the early history of computing |
Graham | Limpkin | | | , | | |
John | Linton | | | , | | |
Frank | Little | | UK | Leo III / government, | 1966 - 1969. I never actually programmed a Leo III in anger, but my basic computer training, including a course in CLEO programming, was at Radley House. I remember those days with affection. | |
Richard | Lloyd | | | LEO III, | 1962 worked on CLEO compiler at HartreeHouse (short period at Minerva Rd.), retired ICL 1999 | |
John | Lochey | | USA | , | I love all things regarding Retro Computing | I have been in the IT industry for almost 30 years. |
David | Loewe | | | LEO II, III, | Programmer&team leader at Lyons,1960-68 Consultant with ICL 1968 - 1998 | |
Ken | Longhurst | | | , | | |
Peter | Lord | | | LEO III/9, | LEO III at HM Customs & Excise, Southend. Programmer in Intercode and Cleo 1967-1968 | In ADP/EDP/IT ever since, currently working for IBM |
Ron | Lord | | UK | LEO III, 326, | BT Engineer,member TD9 acceptace team | Retired ex-senior executive engineer in BTHead of Group Computer Systems Hardware Support Unit.P.O. Engineer-in-Chief's Dept., London ECBT(PO) was the largest customer of LEO IIIs and 326 - 2 systems per site on 9 sites. Each system was tested in f |
Ian | Lothian | | | Shift leadrer on LEO at HM Dockyard Rosyth. | Shift Leader on Operating from 1971 to 1975: LEO III at Rosyth Dockyard | Worked for MOD from 1969 to 1988. |
Bill | Lovelock | | | LEO III/9, | English Electric LEO lll/9. HM Customs and Excise, Southen-on-Sea, Essex The exact dates escape me. worked at Customs on LEO III until very late sixties, (upgrading to ICL System was then imminent),transferred to planning staff at Swansea on planning staff DVLC. | Became a Driving Instructor Tutor at Bangor until retiring in 1989. Former Gwynedd County Councillor and Bangor City Councillor Gwynedd County Councillor - now retired. |
Harry | Lowe | | | LEO III/1, III/4, | September 1962 Attended second course for trainee computer engineers on LEO III, at Minerva Road. Course ran for about 6 months.March 1963 Engineering Shift Leader on III/1 at Hartree House.Jan-Mar 1964 Eng. Shift Leader on LEO III/4 at Greenwich | Current situation: I run a small computer consultancy business called Fivestar Systems Ltd. We specialise in running large IT Systems Projects and in IT Executive Mentoring. |
Millard | Lowe | | Australia | , | | |
Colin | Luckman | | | LEO II/4 | LEO II programmer at Avely from August 1961 to July 1963 | 15 years European Systems Engineering Manager for Du Pont de Nemours Inc. 20 years with Xerox Corp. managing product software development and liaising with the research groups on e.g. graphical user interfaces, workstations, AI, etc. |
Bill | Lumsden | | | DOCOS House from 1965 to 1969 with LEO/ English Electric.. | I was a systems analyst on the Staff and Payroll Team (HEO), at DOCOS House from 1965 to 1969 with LEO/ English Electric.. Subsequently project leader at Coventry Corporation where I designed and installed the Housing Waiting List and The One Man Operatin | Implemented Decimal accounting for Longmans Press and Rotaprint Press in 1971. Joined CMC as Technical Support Manger for North of England, Scotland and Ireland selling and installing Key to Disk equipment. 1976 I went self-employed and have run my own co |
David | Lye | | | LEO III/35, | SWGB Jun 64 to Aug 68 | ICL Communications consultant till redundant voluntarily Mar 89 |
Peter | Lynch | | | , | | |
Jonathan | Lyons | Jon Lyons | Bulgaria | , | None, but I saw LEO a couple of years ago at the science museum | I have an interest as I teach Business accounting, and have an interest in the history of accounting |
Neville | Lyons | | | I did not work on LEO and was not a customer., | I was not employed with Leo or user companies | My family connection with Sir Joseph Lyons, who was my grandfather's cousin, inspired my interest and research of the company history including LEO |
Tim | Lyons | | | , | Sir Joe Lyons is my first cousin three times removed | |
HAMISH | MACKENZIE | | United Kingdom | LEO III (No 32) / Colvilles Steelworks, Motherwell | Leo III Operator | First exposure to computers - treasured. Progressed to career as computer engineer with NCR. |
Rik | MacCormack | | | LEO III/26, | | Post Office, Charles Hse.,Kensington,1964-1967. Worked freelance for. 'Knight Operations Support '. At many &varied locations 1967-1973 |
Hamish W | MacKenzie | | | LEO III/32, | Operator at Colvilles Steel Works, Ravenscraig, Motherwell late 60's - what a magnificent piece of engineering! | Joined NCR in 1969 as Field Engineer and retired 2002 as Senior Technical Consultant (Old Field Engineer) |
Angela | Macadam | | | LEO III/26, III/27, | Operator 1967-76 at Freemans and GPO Charles House. | |
Martin | Macaulay | | | , | | |
Phil | Machin | | | , | | |
Dave | Mack | | | , | | |
Ruth | Mackie | Musgrove | New Zealand | LEO III/25, | My electronic knowledge was somewhat limited in those days, coming straight from school with only 'O' levels! At the time I was doing a tech college ONC course covering motors etc, but after that in later career paths a lot of my electronic knowledge was self-taught and by association with my drummer colleague who also ran a tv/video repair business. | |
Stuart | Mackintosh | | | LEO methodology & technology | | Implementing digital business systems on open source tech since mid 90's |
Phil | Major | | | LEO III/6, III/14, | Operator approx 1967 - 1969 Shell Mex BP Wythenshaw | |
Peter | Mann | | | , | Engineer reporting to Mr E H Lenaert's concerned with the final years commissioning and maintenance of LEO I and the development of LEO II from Oct 1952 to Aug 1961. | Aug 1962 joined Honeywell Ltd, when they started-up activities in U. K. as Service Manager responsible for installation and maintenance of systems manufactured in U. S. A. |
Chris | Maple | | | LEO III/1, III/9, | Customs & Excise | |
Corrie | Marsden | Pistorius | Australia | LEO III/2, | leo computer bureau, anderson street, johannesburg, south africa. 1964 to 1972, working on various packages, including payroll and accounting systems. | |
Bob | Marsh | | | LEO III/58, III/45, | In operations on LEOs from 1968 to 1973: NDPS (Derby), Wedd Durlacher Mordaunt/ Concord Computer Centre (CCC) - London Wall, LBMSU/LOLA (Hackney). | Moved on to be PL/1 programmer, designer, DBA(IMS/DB, systems programmer, various technical management jobs culminating as CTO of Friends Provident. Now independent consultant based in Salisbury. |
Ron | Marshall | | Canada | Leo II at Cadby Hall and Leo III/1 at Hartree House as a technician., | I joined Leo Computers in early 1960 - I had previously been working on teleprinters at the GPO and Leo were looking for technicians to service the paper tape data entry equipment.
Finally - I recently found my old tool case that EELM supplied - it has the original wire wrapping tools and card pullers for LEO mainframes and a few spares including some old transistors and a couple of the toggle switches from the main control panel - plus a supply of the little square lint free cloths for cleaning the Ampex tape heads LOL!
Also I still have my note book that I kept when I attended one of the first if not the first Transistor and Computer Electronics course given at Hartree House for new technicians - Transistors were still new then and somewhat neglected at the technical colleges at that time.
I was at Cadby Hall for a short time before transfering to Hartree house during the installation of III/1.
I had been sent to Wet Gorton for some training prior to this. The exact dates are vague after such a long time.
I worked - among others - with Robin Stanley Jones and I think Maurice Blackburn was there as an Engineer at that time.
I worked shifts maintaing the peripherals and received training on the mainframe. It was an exciting time. I remember a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh and the programmers had arranged for the mainframe to play 'The Sailor's Hornpipe' for him! There was a later vist by the Queen Mother who asked to see a PCB from the Mainframe and then exclaimed 'How exquisite!'
I left Leo in 1963 - I had just got married and my new wife's father invited me to join him in his car retail business - big mistake! | I rejoined what was now English Electric Leo Marconi ( I think) in 1967 and once again worked at Hartree House.
I became Technical Support for London and also trained on the VM operating system.
My manager was John Francis and I seem to remember working with Dave Hewer another Technician.
I left what was now ICL in 1975 to emigrate to Canada - I had been trained on the then new Cougar Solid State Memory Systems so my skills were in demand in Canada.
I worked first for Itel where I trained on IBM 360 systems and peripherals and then Storage Technology (STC later STK) where I became VP Customer Service until 1990.
I retired in 2005 |
Brian | Martin | | | LEO III/6, | Programmer, 1963/4 Shell Mex & BP Hemel Hempstead | |
John | Martin | | | LEO III/5, | LEO III Computer operator at CAV, Acton, from 1969 to 1971 when the company moved to Kent. | |
Debbie | Maynard | | | , | | |
Roger | Maynard | | | LEO III/23, III/27 | I joined Computer Field Maintenance based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire upon leaving Brunel University in 1972. My primary duties with them were the support and maintenance on two LEOs at Freemans Mail Order, Stockwell Road, London . The 360 (Slow machine) | Still in the computer business - IT consultancy and support specialising in network and internet systems |
Roger | Maynard | | | LEO III/23, III/27 | I joined Computer Field Maintenance based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire upon leaving Brunel University in 1972. My primary duties with them were the support and maintenance on two LEOs at Freemans Mail Order, Stockwell Road, London . The 360 (Slow machine) | Still in the computer business - IT consultancy and support specialising in network and internet systems |
Ashley | McCallum | | Australia | , | | |
Craig | McCallum | | United Kingdom | LEO 326 at NDPS at DOCOS House Commercial Rd London | historical interest | proggie with NDPS (Cleo), Mobil Oils proggie (IBM), outsoucing bid manager with Sema Group, freelance contract manager, |
Neill | McCawley | | | LEO III/1, III/5, III/9, III/17, | History: Joined EE at Kidsgrove trained as customer engineer at Minerva Rd. and Radley House Ealing around 1968
machines: Manchester Town Hall
Whiteley's London (leo 3/1)
GKN Shepherds Bush
other London sites on support basis,Custom & Excise and more but memory fails me. | |
Stephen | McCormick | | USA | LEO III/2, | History: Joined LEO Computer Bureau, Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1981 as operator. Worked under Leo Fantl until his retirement. Continued to work at LEO as System Programmer after rename to Sage Computing and after merger with Whitehouse and subsequently until absorbed by EDS Africa. Left in 1996 to join CA Africa. Continued to be involved with LEO as a CA consultant/support tech until I left South Africa in 1998. | My time at LEO gave me a wealth of knowledge and experience which has enabled me to become a very successful software consultant for Computer Associates both in South Africa and in the USA. |
William | McDonald | | | , | | |
Roger | McDougall | | Australia | LEO III/2, | Worked as a engineer on LEO III/2 installed in Johannesburgfrom 1964 until 1969, under Mike Nethersole. Attending training in the UK of the 4/50 range | |
Roger | McDougall | | Australia | Leo III/2 | Career in Leo South Africa | Engineer |
Elizabeth | McGee | Maclean | Australia | LEO III/24, III/33, | First female computer operator employed by Phoenix Assurance Company, Norbury, London, England | |
Lisa | McGerty | | UK | , | | |
Eleanor | McGregor | | | , | | |
Rachel | McLean | | | Academic, | Academic | |
Jenny | McLeman | | | George, the husbands email has been closed down | | |
Paul | McLewee | | | LEO III, | Joined P.O. at Kensington Charles House in Sept'64, Most LEO machines at all post office sites. Moved to Bristol C.C.in '75, left BT '95 | |
Bob | McMicking | | Australia | , | | |
Robert (Bob) | McMillan | | | , | | |
Joe | McNulty | | | LEO III/1, III/13, III/27, III/30, III/33, 326s | LEO III and System 4/75 Engineer in Edinburgh | 1969 - 1973 EELM / ICL on System 4s - ERCC at Edinburgh, (4/75)Edinburgh Corporation, (4/50), S.A.I Edinburgh, (4/30), ICL Dalkeith, (4/50) |
Geoff | Mead | | United Kingdom | Leo Machines | Leo 2 Engineer at Hartree House | Worker for about 1year 1963 maintaining Leo 2/5 and 7(?)..a |
Ken | Meakin | | | , | | |
John William | Meaney | | Switzerland | Leo III/1 Hartree House Leo III/45 Durlacher, | Operations Staff at Hartree House from 1966 to 1968 | |
Cobert | Meeks | | | LEO326, | History: AGD LCC 2 (associated general Department) Post Office.Then British Telecom Located at Charles House OLYMPIA.1969 onwards | |
Colin | Meeks | | | , | | I started my career in 1986 as a programmer using dBase. I migrated over the years to Clipper, then Delphi and then VB.NET, picking up many languages in between. At my first job, I was also given the responsibility of learning desktop publishing to produce the companies magazine, Business Software Review, a publication available via free subscription. Over the years I've flip flopped between programming and design. I also have a wealth of experience with databases, like dBase, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc. I also have a wide range of Internet experience, at one time being responsible for the now defunct directory UK Index. |
Stu | Megan | Deceased | USA | LEO | Worked as a Shift Leader for EELM at Bath Gas Board site on LEO/35 among other machines. from 1968 to 1974,The company became BARIC for the last 4 years of this time. | This was start of my 44 year career that ended up in Silicon Valley working for Netscape and others. |
Chris | Melluish | | | LEO III/1, III/26, | EELM, EE, ICL at Hartree House 1966-9 Post office 1969 | |
John | Melton | | | LEO III, | London Borough of Greenwich and at London Borough of Hackney an Tower Hamlets | 1966 to 1968 LEO Marconi, Computer Operator 1974-1980 Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara, California.Softwareo Engineer Comdesign, Santa Barbara, California. Software Engineer. Santa Barbara Labs. Software Engineering Manager Asset Technology. Technical Director Sun Microsystems. Principal Software Engineer now Oracle Network Architect |
Peter | Merriman | | United Kingdom | Heinz, Ever Ready, BT St Albans | Joined EELM in 1965 at Minerva Road and worked first at Heinz, Dai Hughes as Supervisor, then at Ever Ready with Tony Ryan as site supervisor. | Oct 1963 Manufacturing Manager starting the manufacture of H-400 in Scotland. |
Chris | Metcalfe | | UK | LEO III | Civil servant at Board of Trade Eastcote London | Computer operator 1966 to 1971 |
Graham | Middleton | | | LEO III/13, | Started as trainee computer operator Jan 2 1968 at BOC Manchester, worked on the LEO until it was superceded with IBM360 approx 1975 | |
Derek | Miles | | | LEO III/21, III/45, | Joined English Electric Leos Marconi in January 1967 as a Junior Engineer, Trained for 3 month in HNC Electronics at Radley House Ealing before being posted to Wedd Durlachers and Tote Investors to fill in before my formal LEO III training again at Radley. Worked on these two machines and the Tower Hamlet 326 and the LEO III at City Road. Aspired to the rank of local support engineer before I left in 1971. I still remember engineers like Pete Wells, Bob Wherley, Colin Evans, Pete Fox, Tony Mascord, Dave Hewer, Larry Majewetz, Louise Borg, Pat Boys, Derek Wiltshire ( a brilliant support engineer) etc. | As I said I moved from Leo III onto Orion II, I then worked on 1904A's, 2900's ( I was worldwide support on these) Series 39 - did lots of other things in ICL and finally bailed out with VR in 2001 a career spanning 34 years - not bad for a junior engineer. I'm currently contracting in the IT industry ( ITIL Service Management Process Consultant)but hoping to retire the middle of this year and have a good rest. |
Tony | Miles | | | , | 1963 - 1969 Research Engineer at Minerva Road reporting to John Winterbottom | |
Stanley | Miller | | | , | | |
Wendy | Millgate | Reid | | , | I started at LEO in Hartree House as a trainee programmer in 1962 I worked with Victor Hodge and Ernest Roberts on the software department developing the LEO translator and sort programs d doing testing | Left in 1965 to work in the USA and returned in 1967 back to Hartree House Then working on System 4 Married Mike Millgate, 111/1 engineer in 1968 and moved on the LBJCC Greenwich in 1970 LEO days finished when we moved to the Cambridge area in 1974. Mike was still involved with LEO and its follow on... |
John | Milligan | | | , | I started at LEO in Hartree House as a trainee programmer in 1962 I worked with Victor Hodge and Ernest Roberts on the software department developing the LEO translator and sort programs d doing testing | |
Lester | Millington | | | LEO III/18, III/22, | 1/6/1964 Leo III engineers course 9 at Minerva Rd. | Transfer to Kidsgrove as System 4 (70/45) engineer. Changed to programming. System support on 4/75, application programming in Baric and local government until TUPE'd in 2001 |
Brian | Mills | | | LEO II/1, ll/5, ll/9, lll/1, lll/2, lll/3, lll/4, lll/13, lll/18, | 1957-63 LEO including 1961-62 LEO South Africa, . 1970-80 BOC. | LEO programming, systems, sales. BOC CEO Management Services and Datasolve. . |
Brian Edward | Mills | | | LEO II, III, | 1961 - 1984. Periherals Manager Minerva Road. The first person to transfer into ICT after the merger. | Marketing Mgr - ICL Marketing Mgr - StorageTek Marketing Mgr - Motorola Marketing Mgr - DEC Business Management - 1993 - 2004 |
Michael | Mills | | | LEO I, II, III, | History: Joined Aug 1958 as trainee Engineer
Designed pulse-amplifier for LEO 3
Built LEO 11/5 in factory, attached the first tape drives.
Became Site maintenance engineering manager at Hartree House maintaining LEO 11/5 probably 1959-1961
Joined marketing under Caminer in 1961 | Career: Software manager then European Marketing manager for Honeywell Computers 1961-1965
Xerox 1965-1980 responsible for Hardware,Networks software and development methods.
worldwide. Finally IT Planning manager.
Consultant with CACI 1981-82
Managing Consultant with james martin associates 1982-1990 responsible for methods, training and consulting performance.
Consultanting Director with Texas Instruments 1990-1997
MD of KAMM Associates, Independent Management & IT Consultancy 1997 onwards [KAMM operates worldwide from bases in UK and Australia] |
Peter | Mills | | | LEO I, II/1, II/5, II/9, | Joined LEO Computers at Cadby Hall in 1956 as electro-mechanical engineer on LEO I & II/1.Moved to Ilford Films II/9 approx. 1958.Worked on II/5 at Hartree House approx. 1959. Transferred to the Training School at Radley House, South Ealing - involved in Engineer training.Transferred to the EELM Deuce at the National Physical Laboratory - Teddington. | Jan 1966 Service Manager responsible for installation and servicing of systems in U. K. and Europe. |
Douglas | Milsom | | UK | LEO I, II/1, | Sep.1959 - Sep. 1961: Computer Operator on LEO II/1 at Elms House.(We also ran occasional jobs on LEO I, over the road at Cadby Hall). | Oct. 1961 - Dec. 1993: NCR Ltd. - Various positions in Bureaux Operations, Software programming and Customer Support.Now retired (from Jan. 1994) |
Colin | Minns | | | , | | |
Colin | Mitchell | | Australia | LEO III/1, III/8, III/15 | Nov 62 to Jun 64 Operating LEO III/1, then to Shell Melbourne Ops III/15 andthen Chief Operations Tubemakers Australia on LEO III/ 8. Became Programmer on III/8 Sept 67. | Returned to London Sept 67 but EELM had o work for me, worked at BOAC on IPARS in RT s/w support, then Granada TV on their OLRT advertisement booking system on applications later operating system s/w. Reurned to Australia in 1972 where IBM refused to give me a job on IPARS then being implemented at QANTAS unless I shaved my beard! I still have that beard! |
Don | Mitchell | | | LEO III/5, III/1, | History: Started work in December 1962 as a peripheral engineer.
1962 to 1964 Leo III/5 at CAV
1964 to 1966 Leo III/1 at Hartree House.
Support engineer for Elliot 4100
Worked at NPL on KDF9 and all Data proc equipment
1968 trained on System4 and worked at Road Research Lab in Crowthorne Berks. | Career: Worked in IT till May 2001
Spent 15 months with Phillips in the Middle East.Then moved over the fence to work as an IT Manager with a number of companies.
I wish to learn about the Leo II at Canley and find out what sort of things it was used for. |
Ann | Moffatt | Hill | Australia | Academic | none | Started in ICT in April 1957 at Kodak in UK |
Nick | Moffitt | | United Kingdom | Interested in early computer history. | | I am a systems administrator at a Linux OS development company in London, but my University degree back in the US was in History. |
Mike | Moller | | New Zealand | Leo III, Lector, Spectra 70, System 4, EE KDF-6 | 1964-66 EE-Leo computers (Australia), 1966-68 EE-Leo Data Systems (New Zealand) | post ICL merger - airlines '70s (NZNAC) - Harbours and Container Terminals '80s (Auckland NZ) - consultantcy '90s (NZ) - from 200 semi retired IS lecturer - fully retired to breed alpacas |
Michael | Molloy | | Germany | LEO II/5, II/7, III/13 | November 1958 to April 1961 Field Service engineer and factory commissioning of LEO II and LEO III machines.I worked at Minerva Road - Commissioning;at Hartree House as Field Service engineer;and at British Oxygen in Edmonton | Currently retired after some 25 years at Siemens |
Chris | Monk | | | , | | |
George | Monk | | UK | , | | |
Richard | Monk | | | Academic | | |
Murray | Montgomery-Smith | | | , | | |
Frank | Moorcroft | | | LEO II/5, II/3, | June 1960 to July 1961 maintenance engineer on LEO II/5 at Hartree House. July 1961 to July 1962 maintenance engineer at LEO11/3 at Corby Steel Works | Moved into Automation and ended up with Siemens Automation systems. |
Bruce | Morgan | | | LEO III/1,III/90,III/21, | Shift engineer then Supervisor 4/30 and 4/50 Support then UK Support Service Manager LEO/System 4 Bristol then Regional Support Manager then Support Manager ICL 84 Roadshow then Systems Introduction Manager South then Project Manager CHOPS then early retirement 1998 | |
Carole | Morgan | | Canada | LEO III/6, | Shell 1964 LEO III HC Sleigh 1965 USSR Branch 1969 Moscow 1970 System 4-70's Bulgaria 1971 System 4-70's Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia ; Hungary | |
John | Morgan | | | , | LEOMachines: LEO III/26, III/34, III/58, III/70, III/67 | Shift team leader and operations controller on LEO 326's at Derby,Kensington, Bristol NDPS centres Also worked at Premium Bonds office. |
Nigel | Morgan | | Canada | LEO I, II/1, III/8, III/15, III/20, | Cadbury Hall 1960 - 1963 Australia 1963 - 1968 Minerva Road 1968 - 1969 Eastern Europe Russia 1969 - 1971 Eastern Europe Czechoslovakia 1971 Eastern Europe Yugoslavia 1972 Eastern Europe Hungary 1973 - 1975 | |
Tony (A.B.) | Morgan | | | LEO II/1, II/8, III/1, III/2, III/5, III/9, III/90, III/20 to III/58. | 12/57 started Shift Engineer - II/1 Helped install II/5 Commissioned II/8, Standard Motors, Coventry Pilot/Prototype III/1 Commissioned III/2, Rand Mines, South Africa Commissioned III/5 - CAV, Acton Commissioned III/9 - Customs and Excise, Southend Commissioning KDF9/7 at Kidsgrove Commissioned III/90, Post Office Kensington Commissioning Manager, Minerva Road System Consultant, West End Area, High Holborn Product Planner, Putney Executive, Marketing/Government and Public Corporations Division, Computer House Seconded to Post Office, Kensington) Post Office Region, Computer House, City Wall House Customer Service Technical HQ, Putney Customer Service HQ, Windsor Customer Service Business Development, Stevenage. | 3-68-12/69 system consultant EE Comps. 1/70-3/73 product planner System 4/2900 3/73-2/75 project executive --------- Cust Satisfaction GPCD (6/74-11/74) seconded PODPS LEO's 2/75-11/81 Post Office Region ---------- LEO/System 4/2900 consultant 11/81-12/95 customer service HQ service ----------- measures/product statistics 9/1/96 RETIRED from ICL! |
Elisabetta | Mori | | | , | | |
Alan | Morley | | | LEO III, | 10/1964 - 11/1968System 4 Development Engineer- based on RCA Spectra 70 | |
Tony | Morris | | France | LEO II/3, | Worked for Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd., Corby, in O & M Dept. from May 1956 onwards.Involved in early feasibiity studies, (payroll, minerals) for LEO II/3, through to its final close-down.Colleague of Bob Caldwell, Hamish Archibald etc. | Now retired |
Fiona | Morrison | Spring | | LEO III/1, | Joined LEO in 1964 & eventually left Baric in February 1977 | Left Baric in January 1977.Project Manager with CSC Computer Sciences in Edinburgh |
Gerry | Morroll | | | LEO III/26, III/34, | 1970-1984 Operations and related off-line support work at BT's Kensinton Computer Centre. | |
Peter | Moye | | Australia | , | | Oct 1967 Factory Liason Manager transferred to Boston U. S. A. Liason between Factory and Service Areas. |
Kevin | Murrell | | | , | | |
Kevin | Murrell | | | , | | |
Kevin | Murrell | | | , | | |
Roger | Nash | | | LEO III/4, | I worked for LBMSU on their Leo 3 from about 1969 through to them moving over to IBM.(around 1975). | |
Cyril G. O'Connor | Naylor | | Australia | LEO I, IIIS, 326, | 1960-1979 | |
Wendy | Nazar | | Portugal | , | SMBP Hemel Hempstead Programmer | |
John | Newitt | | | LEO III, | Joined EELM at 65 New St., Birmingham in July 1965 as trainee programmer under Chris Davey. Used Cleo on programs for Lightening Fasteners. Moved onto System 4 within a year. | Remained based in Birmingham until December 1969, working on System 4. Remained in ICL until I retired in 2003 except for a 6 month break in 1984. |
Mike | Newman | | | LEO III/21, III/45, | Joined 18 Sept 1967 and, following 6 months engineering training to Freemans for a couple of years then Charles House for 1 year. | Moved on to System 4 and 2900 and remained with Fujitsu until Dec 11th 2009. |
Peter | Nicklin | | | LEO III/27, | LEO Operator 1971-72 approx 1 year. Freemans Mail Order Ltd, Stockwell, London. One of a shift of 12 people (4 shifts - 48 people) working on two LEOs - (the second one one bought second-hand from I don't remember where). I can clearly remember | From Jan 1970 employed by Plessey Radar in various Management Capacities. Retiered 1991. |
Bill | Noonan | | | LEO III/38, | 196?-1972, Programmer,Portsmouth Dockyards | |
Arthur | Norman | | | Leo2/Leo3, | 1975? Site Eng. Standard Motor company Coventry
1976-86? Site Eng.Derby GPO Computer Centre | ICL Small systems |
Monty | Norman | | | LEO III/6, III/14, III/36, III/42, | Joined English Electric Computers in 1965 after training as engineer went to Renolds Chains, Shell Wythenshawe, and finally at GPO Lytham St Annes. I transferred to Northern Support providing cover all sites in the north and Scotland. The last call out I had was for GPO Cardiff in around 1974 I think. | Then trained on System 4 specialising in communications controllers MCCCU I also worked on 1900 communications devices. After becoming manager comes support north I was made redundant and came back as tech author for a year then joined government sales as network consultant I ended up in that role in customer service in Stevenage then took early retirement redundancy package. |
John | Norton | | UK | LEO Machines | Research section, Minerva Rd., 1962-63 | !st degree Mech Sciences Cambridge 1962, PhD electrical power transmission Imperial College 1967, NPL then Warren Spring Lab. 1967-71, U of Tasmania 1971-9, U of Birmingham 1979-2004, ANU 2003-8, from 1967 control engineering. |
John | Norton | | UK | Leo 326 / General Post Office, British Telecom, | | Writing and maintaining Intercode and CLEO programmes, 1967 - 1973 |
John | Norton | | UK | Leo 326 / General Post Office, British Telecom, | | Writing and maintaining Intercode and CLEO programmes, 1967 - 1973 |
Kevin | O'Brien | | | LEO III/26 | 1971-73 Operator | Milk Marketing Board British Gas Amdahl CSC BBC |
Mavis | O'Connell | | | , | | |
Alan | O'Donohoe | | UK | , | Education | Teacher of Computing |
Aidan | O'Meara | | | , | | |
Malcolm | O'Neal | | | LEO III/26, III/34, III/69, III/44, III/45, III/46, | History: NDPS and successors 1968 > 1999. Eventually ended managing all of BT's computer centres.
I rewrote LEO III Master Routine - 09001 - magnetic tape doubtful block routines to avoid step back/step forward with option 13 still being available. This was based on an idea by Graham Limpkin at Freemans - III/27 - but I never saw his code. | |
Philip | Oberem | | South Africa | LEO III/1, | Employed as Computer Operator from Jan 1966 to Dec 1967 leaving with post of Shift Leader. | Continued working in the Computer Industry till retiring in 2000. Most time spent working at FNB and mostly in Networking |
Sefiu Taiwo | Oloruntoyin | | Nigeria | , | | |
Graham | Osborne | | | LEO III, | Joined LEO computers at Acton in early 60's as a Commissioning Engineer. Stayed while it became English Electic LEO Marconi Computers and eventually ICL. Left to join Ferranti in 1969. | Now employed at BAE Systems as Project Manager - retiring this year. |
Alwyn | Otter | | | , | | |
Stephen | Ottridge | | Canada | LEO I, III/7, | History: sept 1962 - july 1965.
hired originally by Leo Computers, after basic training sent down to work at Lyon's HO in Hammersmith. Was instrumental in getting last Lyon's application off LEO 1 onto LEO 3, this was a tea blending program. The LEO 1 was then decommissioned, sounds better than scrapped. I believe parts went to the Science Museum. Several months after the shutdown of LEO 1, I heard that the Milk Marketing Board turned up wanting to run their 6 month statistical program. | when I left Lyon's I went to work in Zambia and designed systems and programmes on an IBM 360. We had the 5th 2314 disk drive ever manufactured by IBM delivered to us in Zambia. My understanding of CLEO gave me a heads up start in PL/1. |
Peter | Outteridge | | Australia | , | Computer history. | IT professional, now part-retired. |
Phil | Owen | | | , | | |
Martin | Packham | | Germany | English Electric LEO III / London Boroughs Centre in Greenwich, | Interested in learning more about LEO history | My frst job as a junior programmer was in Greenwich 1966-1967; later I went on to IBM machines |
Jeremy | Packman | | United Kingdom | Academic | | |
Anna | Page | | | , | | |
John D. | Page | | USA | LEO III/47, III/51, III/56,, | History: Was a commissioning engineer mid-60's to early 70's. at Minerva Road. Built and installed GPO Edinburgh, SUSZ Prague and others. I have often wondered if there is an old 326 wreck in a basement somewhere that could be somehow lit up again for a museum. I'd help. | Am still in computers but in software now. Building interactive web based applications. |
Linda | Page | | | , | When I was reading about the Leo I, I remember how advanced the Leo II was when it first appeared. | |
Gordon | Palmer | | | LEO II/4, | Engineer at Ford Motor co Aveley, Essex from 1957 for 5 years | |
Jack | Palmer | | Australia | LEO III, | 1961-2.Evaluated constants for e and log using a BrunsVega! Got them right, too. Math routines were being implemented. | |
John | Panter | | | LEO III/12, | 1962-5 working in Research Group at Minerva Rd, for John Winterbottom / John Pinkerton. Moved to Kidsgrove after merger with EE as Project Leader for development of Mag Tape machines. | Moved to Kinsgrove after E.E. merger and for ICL at Kidsgrove and Bracknell until retirement in '98 |
Max | Parish | | | , | | |
Rick | Parish | | | , | | |
John and Wendy | Parker | | | LEO II/5, II/3, | Three years at Hartree House, 1959 - 1962, rising from trainee programmer to senior programmer;working mainly on the LEO II Bureau machine but occasionally on a customer machine, (Stewarts & Lloyds at Corby). | Then left to go to WD & HO Wills at Bristol, (who had two LEOII's at the time, but put me on to their new KDF9 !)Now retired |
Dave | Parkhouse | | | LEO III/4, | History: I started work with EELM on the 2nd January 1967 as a Technical Trainee on the first ever junior engineers course which was held at Radley House. I then went to Greenwich working as a shift engineer. I progressed to Engineer in charge until the LEO was scrapped in the mid 70's. I stayed with the then ICL until 1982. But I remember those days with such fondness. | Left ICL in 1982 went on to BASF then Texas Instruments. Left TI in 1988 to go self employed as a video maker. Still doing the same. |
Brian | Parkinson | | | , | | |
Stephen | Parnell | | | Leo 326 GPO Derby, | An engineer on LEOs for several years in the 1970s | Joined ICL in 1971 as a trainee engineer, Left Fujitsu in 2007. |
W. E. J. | Parry | | | LEO II/3 | Maintenance Engineer and Shift Leader, 1960 to 1962. LEO programmer 1963 LEO Senior Programmer 1964 1966 | Sytems Programmer Honeywell, NCR Elliot, ICL 1900, Modular One 1972 joined ICL UK. Communications Specialist ICL 1900/2900 Project Manager Major systems. 1980 Project.LEO II/3 mainframe engineer 1960 to 1962 LEO programmer 1962 LEO Senior Programmer 1964 1966 Manager International Division Worked in 17 countries. Lived in 5 countries. Retired 1990. Freelance System Management. Major Projects. Geac, Lloyds Register. Since 2000 developed multiple Internet based systems. Still working! Early Retirement since 1991. Formed own company Original Systems Thinking Limited in 1992. Installed major computer based systems worldwide. |
Jacqueline | Paschoud | Everhard | UK | - | Historical | |
John | Paschoud | | | LEO III/26, | Started work at NDPS as DPO (operator) on 4th Dec 1972, working 3 rotating shifts. Worked on all the 326s there, but moved on after about 15 months to System4s (at NDPS Barbican) and 2900s (the first one installed outside of ICL). | Continuously worked in IT since 1972, now InfoSystems Engineer at the Library of the London School of Economics. |
Rona | Passmore | | UK | , | | |
Ian | Paterson | | UK | LEO, | | |
Allen | Pattrick | | UK | LEO III/9, III/10, | c.1965-66 HM Customs & Excise | |
Arthur & Patricia | Payman | | The Netherlands | , | | |
Derek | Peacock | | | , | | |
Andrew | Pearce | | | LEO III/46, | Joined EELM in September 1997 as a Sys 4 eng at Hartree House. Had to work on the Sys 4 deck on the 326 at Cadby Hall and the card reader at GPO Charles House in West Ken. | Career: Worked with Dave Atwell, Peter Eversden was the area manager (but recovering from his car crash at the time) at CJB, GLC, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea and Harrods. Still there now, not as an engineer, after the demise of ICL on 31 March 2002. Now work in an HQ function on project management. Still see Roger Perrin, and occasionaly Les Allen who is also still in the company. |
Brian | Pearce | | United Kingdom | LEO 326 | Started as an Operator in the Post Office NDPS in 1969. | Moved onto Sytem 4 (RCA) in around 1973 and then into programming and project development and ended career in a college MIS environmentt |
Margot | Pearmund | | | , | | |
Sandy | Pelham | | | LEO III/11, | !963-70 | |
Dick | Peters | | | LEO II/5, III/1, | 1960 Joined LEO, Bureau Division1960 - 1961 Programmer (Eagle Star, Durlacher1961 Demonstration Programs for LEO III Prototype1961 - 1962 Senior Programmer / Team Leader for Courtaulds1962 - 1964 Chief Programmer III/1 (Guardian, Eagle Star, Group | Now Retired |
James | Peters | | | , | | |
David | Phillips | | | LEO I, II, | Training department Whiteley's building 1962 on the LEO II courses. Following takeover by EE, became assistant press officer to Alan Brothers based at EE House, Aldwych. Left in 1965 I think. | Left EE-LEO to join Young & Rubicam as writer on GE-Bull account (ad people who knew anything about computers were rare, fortunately. |
Tayce | Phillipson | | | , | | |
John | Phipps | | | LEO III | Joined Hartree house as a programmer in the bureau. Worked on HJHeinz Prust Harris Harella. Joined retail sales, transferred to the new city sales office under Ralph Land. Transferred to retail sales in Stag Place. | Joined Centrefile, Pfizer UK. Hoskyns. Set up Hoskyns Hotel Systems. Independent consultant specialising in micro computers. Qualified as company secretary in 2003 and was director and secretary of several charities - notably ACS. |
Neville | Pike | | | , | | |
Russ | Pinder | | | LEO III, | Research assistant. I was in the small suite of labs / offices on the road side of the site but often used to liaise with the wiring technicians and fabricators in the workshop and machine shop where work was being carried out on prototype cabinets for what I recall was Leo 2, or may have been 3. My memory is somewhat hazy but I do seem to recall a major mod we got involved in when it was discovered that interference was being transmitted through all the cabinet earth wiring and a lot of work had to be done to re-wire all the cabinets to common earthing points. The construction of the Microplane 'T' assemblies was also a significant event. | |
Helen | Pinkerton | | | , | | |
John | Pinnington | | | LEO II/5, II/7, III/1. III/6, III/14 | Operator LEO II Nov.1961- Commissioning Operator KDF9 Autumn 1962- Job Installation Asst. LEO III until August 1963 Programmer LEO III Shell Mex & BP Ltd August 1964 until August(?)1967 | Too much to list but Hoskyns Systems Ltd. 1971-1974 and 1984-1986. |
Cyril | Platman | | | LEO II/11, | 03/1962 Control Clerk06/1962 Computer Operator01/1963 Shift Leader01/1965 Operations Specialist - Project to dispose of II/11 | |
Geoff | Pollard | | | LEO III/55, | NDPS, portsmouth 1967 - 1969 | |
Jan | Pollard | Farlie | UK | , | 1965-67 LEO III @GPO (BT) | |
Martin | Pollard | | | LEO III/22, | was computer operator at H J Heinz running shifts during transition to ICL System 4 1969 until decommissioned | |
Eddie | Poole | | | LEO III/19, III/51, | English Electric Computers 1961-1969 DEUCE Warton, 1961-64 site engineer 3/19 Premium Bonds Lytham 64-66 site engineer 3/51 Post Office Edinburgh 66-69 site supervisor | |
David | Potter | | | LEO III/1, | History: Joined the company in Sept 1962 as a trainee programmer. Worked at large department store on Queensway and at Hay Hill. Was member of team writing sales analysis program for British Oxygen. Team leader was Mary (surname forgotten). I proved useless and left the company in July 1963 | Went into school teaching as a teacher of Russian and French. Ended up as Deputy Principal at very large community college in the West Country. |
Mike | Poulter | | | , | | |
Pat (Ms) | Powell | | | , | | |
Graham | Prattens | | UK | Leo 3 Master Routine | LEO and its successors from 1963 | |
Gary | Preston | | Australia | , | | |
Tony | Priest | | | LEO III, | Joined August 1964 at Hartree House, worked on Share Registration Suite amoongst other applications | |
Douglas | Pryce | | | LEO III/58, III/67, LEO326, | I worked in Derby Computer Centre for the Post Office (PODPS) on Billing and was on Operations in the late 1960s. My LEO326 training was done in the Charles House Computer Centre by Harry Ward ヨ two basic courses and an advanced ヨ I still have all the material. Later, in the early 80s I moved to Cardiff CC as the Deputy Manager and came across the remnants of a LEO that had been stored there. Most of it was going for scrap, but some was going to a college I think. However it was discovered that most of the circuit boards had been 'clipped' for the gold content. I managed to salvage a complete circuit board and a piece of ferrite core that had been dumped. I have these now on my window sill. I am certain about the circuit board ヨ probably from an Assembler ヨ but the core may be from something else. | Remained mostly in Operations and Technical Support with NDPS and BT Networks and Systems working mainly with ICL System 4 and VME 2900 (which I loved ) - senior manager until retirement in 1998. |
John | Pulsford | | | , | | |
Neil M. | Purves | | USA | LEO III, | History: Worked in the service bureau from Aug 1963 to May 1965 on Group Endowments | Career: NAAFI (Germany) 1965-67 Boeing (Philadelphia) 1967-69 GE (Philadelphia) 1969-83 GE (Nashville) 1983-85 GE (Lynchburg, Virginia) 1985-90 Ericsson (Lynchburg, Virginia) 1990-92 Michigan State (Lansing Michigan) 1992-93 Delta (Atlanta) 1993-1997 Blue Cross/Blue Shield GA (Atlanta) 1997- Have worked in Data Warehousing since 1987. Currently Unix and Oracle. Will keep working as long as they toss money at me and my health holds out. |
Robin | Pyburn | | | LEO II/5, III/1, III/5, | Programmer at CAV, Acton and Hartree House Jan 1960 - Sept 1962 | Subsequent employment with Elliot Automation, ITT Data Services, SPL, Data Logic and Infocube. Still working intermittently. |
Geoff | Pye | | | LEO I, II/1, II/3, II/5, II/6, III/1, III/4, | Joined LEO Computers 1955.Programmer to Service Bureau Manager | Retired 1992 |
Liam | Quigley | | Spain | , | | |
Bryce | Quillin | | USA | , | I have not worked at LEO, but have a strong research interest in LEO computers. I am a senior economist at the World Bank where I work on the application of new technologies on the development of manufacturing and services activities. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics. | |
Peter | Quirk | | USA | , | | |
Today Programme Radio 4 | Radio 4 | | | Academic | | |
James | Radley | | | , | | |
John | Rainer | | Switzerland | LEO II/5, II/6, II/7, | Nov 1957 to March 1964First installation of Decca magnetic system on LEO II/5(Those 2 cabinets on the left of your picture of the LEOII/5 console at Hartree House)On site maintenaince on LEO II/5On site maintenaince Britch Oxygen LEO II/7 | April 1964 - 1992 worked on Univac 1107,1108.1160.1180 etc.Univac Support enginer for Europe for Univac 1107 and 1108'sStill learning Computers at 67 years |
Clive | Randy | | | LEO III/1, III/45, | Operator on Jim Wallace's shift, with Bill Cunningham as his deputy from Jan 1966 until March 1968, @ Hartree House on LEO 3/1 and 3/45 @ Durlachers in City of London | Before retiring, ended up as an IT Director at Tibbett & Britten, a multi-national logistics company. |
Jim | Read | | USA | LEO III/94, | Operator/Shift Leader 1969/1970 | |
Stewart | Reddaway | | | , | | |
William | Reed | | | , | | |
Elwyn | Rees-Murray | | | , | | One time teacher who converted Wills LEO II to a school's self-teach controller. |
Cynthia | Reid | | UK | , | Design engineer 1957 to 1961 | Raised in Leeds. Graduated 1957 Newnham College Cambridge in Mathematics and Mechanical Sciences. Recruited by John Pinkerton on graduation. |
John | Reid | | Spain | LEO II/8, | Computer Operator 1965/1966 and learnt to program it. | LEO succeeded by two IBM 1440s and thenIBM System /360. I became a systems programmer. And quite a few things since them. |
Sheila | Reid | White | England | LEO II/1; LEO II/5 | Programmer Sept. 1960 - Feb. 1963 | After LEO I worked for IBM and then joined F International |
Chris | Reynolds | | | LEO III | Shell Mex & BP Helel Hempstead 1965-1967 | |
June | Richards | Frank is deceased | UK | LEO II/5, II/7, III/1, III/18, III/45, | 1963- Training department initially Hartree House then Radley House. After formation of ICL to Minerva Road, engineering training on System 4/70-75 | Incoterm,Case now 'self employed' Vision Talent Ltd |
Peter | Rickard | | UK | Programmer on Leo III at South West Gas, 1969-1973, | Programming | |
Peter | Rickard | | United Kingdom | Programmer on Leo III at South West Gas, 1969-1973 | Programming | |
Bill | Ridgeway | | | LEO III/10, | Operator on LEO III/10 at the Board of Trade, Eastcote 1967 through 1968 and various other posts within the Board of Trade, Eastcote until 1972 | |
Laurie | Ridler | | United Kingdom | Leo326 | Worked for the GPO at Charles House in Kensington as my first job in computing as a trainee operator. Spent about a year as console operator before leaving to work on various ICL George II, George III and VME machines. | Spent most of the rest of my working life contract operating. |
Donald | Riley | | | LEO III, | 1965 Consultant in Management Science Dept. under Mike Webb1967 Manager - Management Science Dept.1968 Head of Steel Industry Specialist Section1968 September to 1970 May, in USSR as a Project Manager | Since 1979 Director of DDS Ltd, a property refurbishment & development company at London Bridge. |
Mike | Ritman | | | , | | |
Colin | Roach | | | LEO III/7 | Joined 1963, left 1968 just prior to merger with ICT.Machines: LEO 3. J Lyons. English Electric, Post Office Premium Savings Bonds. Imperial Smelting, Bristol. Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society | Joined Cheltenham & Gloucester to manage the System 4 installed in 1968. |
Ernest | Roberts | | | LEO I, II, III, | November 1954 J.Lyons Mathematical programming LEO I.Then LEO Computers, LEOs I, II, III.Matrix programs for LEO I & II.Software - Master Routine,Intercode translator, Cleo Compiler on LEO III.1963 EELM LEO Software Manager. | 1968 ICL New Range software testing, IDMS.1991 Retired |
Gwynn | Roberts | | Australia | LEO III, | Operator at Hartree House Bureau 1961 - 1962Then at Minerva Road, Acton 1962-5 | Burroughs Machines 1965-76Citibank, Sydney 1979-83Unisys Australia 1990-presentContracting in gaps |
James | Roberts | | | , | 1965-1967: worked on CLEO compiler for System4, but learned Intercode to understand LEO III compiler. | |
Donald | Robertson | | | LEO III/1, | LEO III/1 SHIFT OPERATOR 1962-64 Susequently Manager of CSD (South) | AFTER SALES SERVICE DEPT 1964-67 DP MANAGER FENWICK LTD 1967-70 |
Ian | Robertson | | USA | LEO III/4, | Started at LBJCC on May 1st 1967 as Trainee Operator, leaving in June 1968 | Just about every job in computing since then, branching out into program management and troubleshooting. That wonderful computing career has taken me to live in six countries and visit most of the world - thank you ! |
Stewart | Robertson | | | LEO III/51 | Post Ofice Edinburgh 1967 - 1971 Post Office Docos House London 1971 | ICL System 4 ICL 2900 |
Valerie | Robertson | Bridge | UK | Leo III/13 and two others, | Was my first job as a computer operator in 1973 | LEOs were at British Oxygen Company, Priestley Rd Walkden |
Alan | Robinson | | | LEO II/4, II/11, | I was recruited by Ford to work on LEO II/4 at Aveley, and then on II/11 at their Dagenham plant.Then was sold to EEL and eventually became Service Mgr for London.Quit at the ICL takeover. | Despite my age, I'm still running my own company, but this is a low-tech activity with Stairclimbers (powered machines to take loads of up to 1000kg up/down stairs). So I still wander the UK toting my wares. |
Graham | Robinson | | | , | | |
Robert | Roche | | United Kingdom | LEO machines | N/a | Retired BT / radio ham / u3a |
Dave | Rocke | | | LEO I, II/5, II/9, | Joined 1957, trained as hardware engineer in Acton.
Just after being posted to LEO I, I was faced with National service, so back to the factory in Acton to claim educational deferment, and work on building LEO II/5. Went to Hartree House as hardware support (I hated those rotating shifts!).
Then to LEO II/9 at Ilford until I joined Honeywell Computers in 1963 | Honeywell Computers for 26 years as a software developer, mostly in the US. Contractor for fifteen years (DEC, Bachman, Siemens Medical Systems) untli retirement to the UK last year |
Bill | Ross | | | LEO II/8, III/11, | Standard Motor Co.& Smith & Nephews I was employed in both instances by the customers. As one of four ops at Coventry and as ops Manager in the Bureau in Birmingham | To much to log here. |
Philip | Rowe | | | , | Son of the late John Rowe | |
Jack | Russell | | Australia | , | Writing LEO III test programs at Minerva Road. 1960-63 | |
Mike | Russell | | | LEO III/18, | Cerebos Foods1965-72, operator and Intercode programmer | |
Tony | Ryan | | France | LEO III/24, III/39, | Site Engineer !965-68 | National Repair Cente, Wang Computers 1986-87 |
Adrian | Rymell | | UK | , | | |
David Murray Nathaniel | SAUNDERS | My Mother - Phyllis Maud Stacy nee Twyman | UK | EELM System 4/30 Design Prototype - Gt Baddow, | Everything about Leo is fascinating | C.Eng MIET BCS CITP International Airport Conmsultant |
ANDREW | SOLLY | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
David | Saker | | | , | | |
Paul | Salmon | | UK | Family Involvement, | Family involvement with J Lyons & Co. Limited | Solicitor |
Len | Salter | | | LEO I, | I joined LEO at Harptree House in Queensway as a trainee operator in about 1964. Bill Steel interviewed me and was a manager I admired who was not afraid to air his forthright views. I worked for a shift leader called Dave Kenneral and Toby Edwards was the Chief Operator. My abiding memories of the early days were the all night Poker sessions and the Indian Restaurant in westbourne grove! I eventually became a Shift leader and then chief op before leaving in about 1973 to join LBMSU as assistant operations manager. | In 1978 I moved to Wessex Water in Bath originally as operations manager before being appointed Head of Information Services. |
David | Samways | | Australia | , | I joined the Marconi Company, part of the English Electric Group, as an apprentice in 1957. After a spell abroad in Nigeria, I transferred to EELM at Kidsgrove in 1965 as Project Coordinator. This embraced various planning activities with LEO at Minerva Road and Hartree House, and the introduction of the System 4 range of computers. I well remember the meetings with John Pinkerton and David Caminer at Minerva Road and also a Gentlemen we knew as "Stan the Plan". RMH (Mike) Smith was my main contact at Hartree House in Bayswater. | I joined Honeywell Computers (UK) in 1969 and transferred within that company to Australia in 1979, through various R & D and management roles, before retiring in 2003. |
Francis | Sanger | | England | LEO III, 326, 360 | November(?), 1964 to February, 1968. Training Department; a few weeks at Hartree House, then at Radley House. Intercode training, Program Planning, finally, as all of us, System 4. | After Radley House, 15 months at International Data Highways (long gone), 18 years at Univac, all as a trainer. On All Fools' Day 1987, turned freelance developer/coach/trainer - OO, agile techniques. Now retired.. |
William | Sant | | | LEO III, | HMC&E Southend | |
Bernard | Saw | | Australia | , | | |
Derek | Scholes | | France | LEO III/13, | leo III/13 @ British Oxygen (BOC) 1965 to 197? | |
Frank | Scott | | | , | | |
Jan | Scott | Munns | | Ex employee | Computer programmer in Hammersmith from 1970 | |
Peter | Scott | | USA | LEO III, | Development Engineer from September 1961 to August 1965. LEO III and 326 Development, including Lector document reader | Systems Engineer from 1966 to present with RCA/GE Aerospace/Martin Marietta/Lockheed Martin/L-3 Communications (same office, different owner) in Camden, New Jersey. |
Sandra | Scrivens | Collins | UK | LEO III, | Nostalgia | I worked as the mag tape librarian 1969/71 preparing the loading lists for scheduled runs and documenting data tapes and daily/weekly/monthly backups in the emergency store in Cadby Halll |
Amar | Seeam | | Mauritius | , | | |
Rodney | Seeley | | | , | worked English Electric LEO Computers etc. leaving ICL in 1969. | |
Andrew | Senior | | Canada | LEO III/39, | 1969 to 1971 (this is a guess!) | |
Andrew | Senior | | Canada | LEO III/39 | 1969 to 1971 (this is a guess!) | Service Tech - primarily at Ever Ready. |
Alan | Sercombe | | Australia | LEO III/8, | Feb 1963- September 1968 LEO Australia | |
John | Sergeant | | | LEO III/1, III/3, III/7, III/38, | III/3 Shift Eng 62 III/1 Shift Ldr 63 III/7 Chief Eng 63-65 III/38 Installation Rosyth 66 Autolector support 65-67 | System 4 Supervisor CED Hartree 67 Technical Services Mgr ICL London 69 Customer Eng Mgr General Automation DP Sales Exec Olivetti |
Peter | Shaw | | | LEO III/21, III/45, | operator at Tote Investors,1967 to 69,then Durlacher -memorie of "Iron filing spray" at Charles House | |
Ray T | Shaw | | UK | LEO I, | | |
Steven | Shepherd | | | , | | |
Dennis | Sheppard | | | LEO III/8, III/10, III/21 | Operator Board of Trade 1966 - 68 Shift Leader Tote Investors 68-69 Operator on loan from ICL Sydney 1970 at Tubemakers | |
Reg | Sheppard | | | , | | |
Paul | Sherer | | | LEO III/27, | Freemans 1970-75 | |
Rob | Sherwin | | UK | ICL1900, Baric, Hartree House | | ICL 1900 (Baric) operator 1974-75. Newman Street, London W1, and sometimes sometimes Hartree House and Feltham, Middlesex. |
Tony | Shields | | | LEO III/1, III/13, | 1963-1967, Whitelys, Bayswater then Worsley, Manchester. Was eventually Chief Programmer; worked for Les Campion, Head of O & M, BOC. Developed Sales Analysis Suite then Cylinder Rentals using Intercode. Just started on Cleo as I left. | Career: From BOC moved to Cape Industries as DPM (ICL 1900 range. In 1969 to Vickers Group in Germany (also ICL 1900 range). Back to UK in 1974 to Davy Corp as IT Exec migrating from ICL 1900 to Univac 1100 then various minis and super-minis. Changed languages from Cobol/DBMS to D-I-Y 4GL/RDBMS. 1991-2001 ran own business specialising in IT/IS Project Management. Ret'd in 2001 (again!) but recently PM'd website development (www.ltuc.org.uk) |
Julian | Shindle | | | , | | |
David Bernard | Shine | | USA | LEO III/1, | Joined EELM in 63 or 64. Was trainee programmer at Hartree HouseJoined London office under Alan Jacobs, Frank Land and David Caminer | Left 67 to become DP Manager at Benson Advertising. Still in software business, but mainly retired. Age 77 |
Mark | Shuttleworth | | | LEO III/22, | Worked at Renold between 1975 and 1978 as a computer operator on LEO III/22. | Moved to ICL in 1978 and am still with them at the time of writing (Dec 2001) |
Ian | Silversides | | USA | LEO III/27, | EELM Instructor (Intercode)1964-1966 | Currently: VP Marketing National Wholesale Co. Inc. USA |
Iain | Simpson | | | LEO III/13, III/18, | Cerebos 1962/3 trainee programmerBritish Oxygen - ManchesterProgrammer 1963-65 | worked on IBM 360 (Salop CC)NCR Century (NCR)PDP-11 (OEM)Unix, PCs etc (Freelance) |
John | Simpson | | Australia | LEO III/8, | I started work in 1963 with LEO computers in Sydney when Peter Gyngell was the MD. I was in the first group in Sydney who were trained in Australia - the people who were there before me had been trained in the UK. | I left there to join a small company called IP, still doing Leo programming, but moved on to program the Singer System 10 and then the System 25. I led a small team that installed a System 25 at Blackwoods and Son, and them I joined them, working my way up the management tree to become EDP Manager. After I left them I joined another small company called Lingua Ten, and then bought into that company as a Director, although I still mainly worked as Consultant/Systems Analyst/Programmer. As a company, we moved into Ingres and Unix. When work started to dry up for small operators, I moved back to Contracting, and finished up as a Contractor to Qantas. I joined Qantas as a permanent Systems Analyst, but was outsourced to IBM, where I stayed until I was made redundant a couple of years ago. Ironic isn't it - finishing up in what was our major enemy way back in the 60s. |
Brian | Skillen | | Canada | LEO I, II/1, III/7, | 1959 to 1971 - Computer Operations with LEO and then with J Lyons. 1972 to 1974 - Systems Analysis with Lyons Bakery. | Emigrated to Canada in 1976 and continued in computer systems until early 1990's with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and later with the BC Systems Corporation. |
Judy | Skillington | | | , | | |
Frank | Skinner | | | LEO II/1, III/1, III/3, III/23, III/41, | Joined LEO Nov. 1961Dunlop Birmingham 1966NHKG Ostrava 1966-68 | ICL Moscow 1970ICL Sydenham 1974Left company 1975 |
Alan | Skipp | | | , | Joined JanLEO/EELM Engineer at Tote Investors(3/21) Site Supervisor/Service Manager Project Manager 2960 DME LEO Late 1970,s until LEO finished at B.T. 1965. | |
Toby | Sleigh | | | LEO III/26, | Post Office KCC Charles House 1977 - 1984, Shift engineer. | |
Alan Leslie | Smith | | | LEO III/17, | Manchester City Council Sept. 1968 - approx 1973 | |
Brian | Smith | | | , | | |
Bryan | Smith | | | LEO II/9, II/4, II/11, | | |
John Meredith | Smith | | | , | | |
Jonathan | Smith | | | LEO III/22 | Started as a 'loader', progressed to full operator, often running a third shift alone overnight. | Progressed to Programmer - but not on LEO mchines, thence to Analyst / Programmer and up to and including IT Department management. After realising IT was a 'young man's game' changed careers. |
Leigh | Smith | | | , | Joined J Lyons in 1963 and worked in the three corner houses on an in house management training scheme then transferred to Hotels division. My interest in computers started when I heard about Leo when playing rugby with Leon Ditt and Tony Morgan to name just two I was then lucky enough to work at the Strand Palace Hotel installed its first computer a rather basic bookkeeping and cashiering function 1972 ( but it was like Leo before it)developed in house I think it ran on an pair of ICL small computers running in parallel. There is a story to this as well as it was a first of its type in the UK | The computer installations at the Strand and the Regent Palace Hotels were not in the same league as LEO but the idea was certainly as a result of Christopher Salmon being very impressed with the Work being carried out at Elms house. He was also prompted by the need to address the issue of queueing at the three large hotels cashiers desk. A whole IT department was set up including programmers and Strand Hotels already had a very good work study and system analyst departments. We ended up with two Digital PDP8i systems side by side with printers. What was so impressive was the risky nature of the installation the only way to trial it was to go live with the customers which we did but at the same time running the old system you can a imagine what happened.My only real claim to fame is that I played rugby for J Lyons with Tony Morgan. At the end of each season we had a seven a side tournament which LEO always won but we in the West End Hotels divsion beat them on more than one occasion. |
Mike | Smith | | | LEO I, II/5, LEO III/1, | Operator - shift leader 1966 - 1968LEO 326, GPO Portsmouth | OCR Bureau, Chichester, 1968 - 1969 Operator, programmer, network specialist, manager for OSI & X.400 implementation,IBM UK 1969-1993 |
Ray | Smith | | UK | LEO III/4, III/94 | Operator and programmer | LOLA went IBM! Became PL/1 programmer - Chief Programmer. Joined Lloyd's of London 1979 - Programming Group Leader -Development Manager - General Manager System Development and IT Services. A couple of year's consulting around the year 2000 - now happily retired for the last 10 years. |
Ray & Lorina | Smith | | | LEO III/55, | May 1960 through to ICL 1976 LEO 326, GPO Portsmouth | Queen Mary College Computer Centre 1976 t0 1988 |
Roy | Smith | | Canada | LEO II, III, | I started as an Apprentice in the commissioning dept approx Oct 1957. I graduated as a Commissioning Engineer with my HNC (Distinction) in 1963 and worked on every leo 11, and most leo III's and peripherals. Left in Jan 1964 to emigrate to Canada | Career: I joined Ferranti Packard and worked on their FP6000 computers, until they folded in August 64, then I joined a local toronto company for 4 years working on the design and implementation of supervisory remote control and instrumentation systems. In Oct 1968 I joined Digital Equipment and worked in their Field Service department, then Field Sales Department until August 1979. I then joined a local (London, Ontario) OEM called Cableshare who was one of the first really true early internet systems (DEC PDP11's and VAX's) using packet switching networks offered by Bell and CNCP in Canada inplementing on-line across the country wide systems for a wide range of business applications. |
Tim | Smith | | | LEO III/58, | Operator on the 2 PO Derby LEO 326 machines from 1971 to 1977 Can possibly obtain memorabilia and photos in due course | Stayed with PO/BT computingfor 30 years, retired in 2000. LEO to ICL 2900 ops then software support specialising in networking. 1985 to 2000 IBM SNA network software support |
Judy | Smythson | | | LEO I, II, III | | |
Stan | Snow | | | , | | |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Andy | Solly | | United Kingdom | Managed the installation of POTB 2900 in Portsmouth & Charles House to replace Leo111s | | Worked within ICL's Post Office Region/Telecomms Sales Branch from 1978 until 1987, recruited to PO Region by Bob Knight and worked alongside Tony Morgan & Bruce Elkington. |
Howard | Somerset | | | LEO III/38, III/42, | September 1962 - Sep 63 (approx)assigned to Reynold Chains contractSep 63 (approx) - Sep 64customer support (variety of customers)Sep 64 - Dec 65on site at Portsmouth Dockyards | Stayed with company, moving to Dalkeith Jan 72 on System 4 S/WThen to Kidsgrove Apr 76, staying until retiring in Jan 97. |
Carsten | Sorensen | | | , | | |
Simon | Spanchak | | Canada | LEO II/1, III/7, | Operator on LEO III at Elms House | Programmer on IBM360 at Lyons, left in 1974 . Now design and develop software in Canada . Specialising in z/OS internals See www.exspans.com |
Robert | Spargo | | | LEO III/39, 43, 56. 68. 69. 70. | 1964-1988; Minerva Road, Winsford, Kidsgrove | |
Reginald Erle | Sparry | | | LEO II/6, | I with about 10 other MPNI executive officers attended at Lyons HQ in London for training before LEO was installed ar Records Branch at Newcasle on Tyne. Aprox date 1959 I was subsequently employed in the Deptments HQ & Local Offices | |
David | Speight | | | LEO III/19, III/36, | History: Senior Operator at at Bonds and Stock Office, Lytham St. Annes. 1966-68. | |
Dag | Spicer | | USA | , | | |
Peter | Spring | | Australia | LEO III/15, III/49, | Employed by Shell Australia working on Leo machines form 1967 to about 1975 | |
Maurice | Stafford | | | , | | |
Ivan | Stanley | | | LEO II/5, II/7, | Initially employed as trainee operatorat Cadby Hall on LEO I. Transferred to LEO II/5 later combined with LEO II/7 atHartree House. Dates? | |
Jeffery | Stein | | | , | | |
Paul | Stephens | | | LEO III/26, | 1972-74, trainee operator, then operator, at PODPS, (Post Office Data Processing Center, Charles House, Kensington, London.) Worked on printers, card readers, mag tapes. Never made it to console op! | Later worked for ICL (software support), and editor of PC Plus magazine. |
George | Stern | | | LEO III, | April 1963 trainee consultant & programmer at Hartree House thenconsultant until about 1968 selling LEO III, 326, System 4 | After ICL merger: 1968-69: Futurology1969-1982 Management Science consultant1982-1992 Statistician in ICL UK HQ1992 Redundant1994 Called to the Bar; part-time Law & Research |
Bob | Stevenson | | | LEO II/5, III/1, III/4, III/45, | 1959 - 1971Operator & Shift Leader on II/5. Shift Leader, Chief Op., Ops Manager on III/1, III/45; also covering III/4 occasionally. (Also Ops Manager on 4/50 and 1904As at Newman Street.) | 1971-1976 Ops. Manager at Grand Met. Hotels (GRIP). 1976-1996 Ops Manager, Systems Analyst, etc., for MOD. 1996 Retired (early). |
Roger | Stewart | | | LEO II/4, II/5, | Originally I was employed as a trainee computer operator working for Dataskil on the site who were contacted to run the operation and then moved over to work for the local government organisation when they took over the contract in-house. I was shift leader at the demise of the Leo 3 before moving up to Enfield when they changed sites and moved to IBM. | I stayed in and around the computer industry from then untill now. Currently Reader in Systems Management at Kingston University, School of Computing and Information Systems. |
David | Stirling | | USA | LEO III, | Maintenance Engineer. August 1962 to August 1964 | |
Roger | Stones | | | LEO III/5, | Programmer on CAV LEO III at Acton.Jan 1964-Nov 1965 | |
Mike | Storey | | | LEO III/33, | I worked as a shift engineer on LEO III/33, at Phoenix Assurance, reporting to Bob Hare (LEO Site Manager). I was still there when their second (additional) machine was being commissioned, by which time the LEO Site Manager was Dave Woosnam. | |
David | Stroll | | UK | Not applicable - I started work as an ICL Graduate Trainee in 1968 | I am putting a paper together for Ralph Land on this topic | TBS |
Bryan | Sullivan | | Australia | , | CHOPS then early retirement 1998 | |
James | Sumner | | | , | | |
Stuart | Sumner | | | Press, | Press | |
Chris | Sundt | | | LEO III, | Joined EE-LEO in 11/64 as a programmer and retired from ICL/Fujitsu in 1999. Started on KDF9 and LEO III in the Whiteley offices but also spent time in Minerva Road, Kidsgrove and other places. | |
David | Swinscoe | | | LEO III/42 | As a boy I was interested in electronics and computers. My uncle was a computer manager at Reynolds chains in Manchester and I visited the LEO II/42 computer during school holidays when statying with him. I was given much of the LEO III computer when it w | My working life has been in science, electronics and computing; apart from the first few years, this has been as an educator. |
John | Sylvester | | UK | , | November 1955 joined LEO as a Development Engineer. At that time, LEO II/1 was being built and I was involved in the design (or re-design) of several units to get it working. My first major project was to attach the Ferranti magnetic drum system and later | I remained with the subsequent companies until December 1991 when I took early retirement from ICL. |
G Brian | Tanner | | | , | I was on the staff of Stewarts & Lloyds based at Corby, Northants in the early 1960s and attended the second ever CLEO programming course held above Whiteley's Department Store, Queensway, Bayswater. | |
Graham | Taplin | | United Kingdom | LEO III/24, III/33 | Joined Phoenix Assurance in 1968 to work on 33 as operator. Stayed at Phoenix until they moved from LEO machines. Moved parts of 33 to Royal Scottish Museum | |
Matt | Taub | xxDeceased | | LEO I, II | I joined the Research Department of LEO in the summer of 1955 after working for about five years on the application of electronics in telephony. LEO 1 was already in operation, and LEO 2 under development in what had been a tea warehouse near Shepherds Bush.
For the first few months I worked on the InputOutput system, which, I seem to remember, was called the Annexe. and fulfilled the same functions as the Channels in the later IBM 360 machines. But another part of the machine began to present problems, and I spent much of my two-year stay with the Company on the task of overcoming them.
In both LEO 1 and LEO 2. the main memory consisted of mercury delay lines, using techniques originally developed for radar during World War 2. In LEO 1. the ultrasonic pulses circulating around the delay lines were of about 1 microsecond duration, but LEO 2 sought to be more ambitious, and reduced the pulse duration to 0.25 microseconds. This called for electronic circuits whose performance was close to the limits of what was then possible, and the design of these circuits was my main task.
In the course of this work, the Research Department moved from Shepherds Bush to Minerva Road, and for the last few months of my time at LEO, I was Assistant Manager of the Research Department immediately under John Pinkerton.
By the summer of 1957 LEO 2メs storage problems had been overcome, and I felt that it was time to move on. | I then joined the newly-formed IBM UK Laboratories, and stayed there. first in London and then in Hursley, working on many different topics until my retirement in 1987. For my final few years there, I held the Corporate position of Senior Technical Staff Member. |
John | Taylor | | | LEO III/44, | When I started, we did not have a computer in Sydney - all our work had to be sent to the UK to be punched, compiled, simple errors debugged, and then sent back to us. | Employed by Fina Petroleum, ICL Dataskil. SDL, CACI and CHISQ |
Maurice | Taylor | | | LEO II/4, II/5, II/11, | Operator with LEO in Queensway 1961/2 Operator with Ford Motor Company 1963/4 | Joined LEO from school. Moved to IBM world in 1964 as operator, then programmer, then analyst etc. spent whole working life in IT ending as Development Manager with CSC in 2000 when retired |
David | Tebbs | | | LEO III, | EE LEO to ICL - 1964 - 1969Started with LEO Induction at Hartree HouseManaged EELM support to Lyons (LEOs) from Euston Road | CEO BIS Allied Systems and BIS Group directorChairman BIS Banking SystemsChairman Druid Group plcChairman Strathdon Investments Ltd.Director Xansa plcDirector AIT Group plcDirector Pittards plcPrinciple David Tebbs Associates |
Joe | Thain | | | LEO III/24, III/94, | 1966/7 III/24(Allied Suppliers); 1967-9 III/94 (LBMSU, Hackney) | |
Robert | Thoday | | France | LEO I, II, III, | Programmer at Cadby Hall July 60 to May 64 | |
Alan Edward | Thomas | | France | LEO III, | Project Manager 2960 DME LEO Late 1970,s until LEO finished at B.T. | |
Edd | Thomas | | UK | , | | |
Luke | Thome | | | Academic | | |
Alan | Thompson | | | LEO III/4, | Engineer at Tote Investors(3/21) | |
Gordon | Thompson | | | LEO III/6, III/14, III/29, III/31, | I was a LEO III intercode programmer and then Senior Programmer at both places. SM&BP switched to UNIVAC round about 68/69 I started in 1965 and left in 1969 (or could have been '70) | Did a little bit of programming on the system 4 but went on to work on 1900 and then 2900/60 with ICL from 1970 (I was with GUS for 10 months on Honeywell) until ending my days with Fujitsu at WG (MAN05) in 1991. "Retired" at age 55. |
Jack (Alan) | Thompson | | UK | LEO III/32, III/38, III/49, III/55 | 1960 -Started at Minerva Road as Peripheral Technician, finally ended up as a Commissioning Chief Engineer.Installed LEO III systems at Naval Dockyards, Post Office Portsmouth and Ravenscraig Steelworks. Also installed system in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia | Transferred to EELM / ICL at Winsford installed 2900 systems within South Africa and Australia.Now retired. |
Philip | Thompson | | | LEO III/26, III/21, | Operator NDPS Hammersmith 1968-69. Operator then programmer Horserace Totalisator board 1969- 1977 | Stayed with the Tote until after the change to an ICL 1902T. Moved to companies using IBM mid range (System 3, 34, 38 and AS400) computers either working as a senior technician or IT manager role. Currently working for a Global bank Citi, retiring July 13 |
Roger | Thompson | | New Zealand | Son of TR Thompson | | Retired from 50 years with IBM software |
Tom | Thompson | | Canada | LEO I, II, III | Joined late 50's Internal training Minerva Road, Maint LEO I Cadby Hall, LEO 11 Hartree House, Comm Eng Minerva Road Installed at Sydney, Melbourne, Greenwich, Southend, Played Rugby Lyons Club | Left mid 6o's for ICL/ICT Stevenage Emigrated to Ottawa Canada 1973 5 years with Consolidated Computer 25 Years with Mitel Quality, Eng Management,Program Management. Retired 2002 a full time job with overtime!! |
David | Thorn | | UK | , | | |
Luke | Thorne | | United Kingdom | Project Archivist | | |
Roger | Thorpe | | | , | | |
Tony | Thorpe | | | LEO III/5, | LEO III/5 at CAV Ltd., West Acton, 1963 - 66 | Centre-File and then John Hoskyns & Co. |
Peter | Thrift | | | LEO II, III,O 360/326, LectorLEO IV, | R&D Design Engineer 1959 /66 | |
Vince | Tilley | | | LEO III, | April 1966 joined English Electric/ LEO/Marconi and after training, was a site engineer at LBJCC LEO III/4 at Greenwich. | Then moved to the City and System 4, working at Swiss Bank, Tote Investors, Allied Suppliers, L & M and several others around the City area. Moved on to become a Supervisor, Service Manager and then an ADM in Sales with ICL.Finally, 5 years before I retired, moved to Commercial Systems as Sales Support Manager. |
Joan Ann | Tilling | | | LEO III/1, | Programmer at Hartree House 1965-1968 | EELM, then BARIC system-4 until 1970, then children. |
John | Tilling | | | LEO III/1 | Programmer at Hartree House 1964 to 1967-ish. Learnt to play bridge. | EELM, then BARIC with KDF9, System-4, ICL1906. Left 1975 to join Dacoll - still programming (C++, javascript, whatever) doing bits and pieces. |
Robert | Timms | | Australia | , | | |
David | Tipping | | | LEO III/47, III/93, | August 1964 joined English Electric Leo Marconi in Export Sales
After taining as a programmer went to help / train customers' programmers in Czechoslovakia:
1. Railways Research Centre in Prague
2. Ministry of Pensions
In Prague from November 1965 to December 1968. | Stayed with ICL in Poland, Computer House Euston, Putney, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia, until August 1986.Now retired. |
Charles | Tivendale | | Australia | LEO III/49, | Shell operator | Worked at CSIRO, now retired |
Eric | Tombs | | | LEO III/3, III/23, | Dunlop Rubber Co 1963 to 1966 | |
John | Tomlinson | | | LEO III/44, | Programmer with Post Office, working on Postmaster's Accounting System (1970-71) | Worked on ICL System 4s at Post Office. After leaving Post Office, joined ICL Dataskil. Then variouss jobs with Corning, Thorn EMI and Electrolux where I was IT Manager. Latterly, Information Security with Northumbria Police, and now in a similar |
Mike | Towey | | Ireland | LEO III/5, | | 1973-2003 Senior Programmer, Project Leader, Consultant, 1985-2003 Contract Analyst Programmer |
Peter | Towndrow | | | LEO III/1, III/5, III/7, III/19, III/44, III/46,, | History: Started as Op with the GPO at Charles House Kensington on 3Fs in Sep 1965 approx. Joined English Electric Leo Marconi 2nd Jan 1967 as a Junior Engineer and was based at J.Lyons. Eventually transferred to Cardiff where we had a 2966 running as a Leo for a while - very interesting! | Still with ICL - after System 4, various 2900s and 3900s I ceased live Engineering to go into Operations Support where I live today. Main role now is as a provider of Management Information and managing a web site (Intranet) for MoD Operations. I'm still working at age 67 for Fujitsu Services - still on an Engineers grade - TSS$ - Technical Systems Specialist |
Mike | Trevanion | | | , | | |
Simon | Trew | | Hungary | , | | My mum (DOREEN JOYCE TREW) was employed by Joe Lyons from about 1951 to 1958, as a cashier in the corner shops at first but then as an assistant accountant at Lyons House, I think, and she knew the Leo. She didn't get to touch it or go near it of course, but in her later years she got in touch with Peter Bird, and I have a signed copy of his book. It may please him to know I have been a software engineer for thirty odd years now, and still love to know how they work, underneath, all my brothers are electrical and electronic engineers and so am I, but I am the only software engineer: so LEO made my career, in a srange way. My mother died peacefully on 25 November this year, but she was pleased to be in touch with Mr. Bird. She was an avid collector of things, so as we go through her estate, if I find anything related to LEO or Lyons, I should like to send it on to Mr. Bird if it is relevant. (My aunt worked at ICI doing Telex, and I still have reels of punch tape from there which I can read like braille on five-punch tape: I had a srange childhood I suppose.) |
Max | Trist | | | LEO 111/15 and 111/49 | Shell Australia operator and shift leader | Later on to IT Manager in IBM based data centre |
Leslie | Trott | | | , | Systems Training Manager at Hartree House, Radley House, then Director of Studies at Hedsor Park. 1964-1968 | |
Walter | Trupke | | | LEO III/15, III/49, | | |
Jonathan | Tucker | | | LEO III/70, | Engineer, 1979-82 | |
Norman Peter | Turner | | UK | LEO II, III, | I first learned of Lyons Electronic Office from my father W.L.Turner (Les) the electrician who installed the mains power supply on LEO I. Upon showing interest he arranged through J.M.M.P. for me to work during my summer vacations of 1951 & 52 in the LEO | When English Electric came on the scene I designed the Input/Output controller for System 4/60. and finally departed July 1968.Now retired. |
Leslie | Turtle | | | , | | |
Chris | Turton | | | , | | |
Douglas | Tweddle | | | LEO II/6 | Joined Ministry of Pensions as engineer from National Service in Sept 1961 Left in Sept 1981 | |
Vera & Ken | Tyack | Moss | | Leo III/1, | Vera
1964 - 1968 Leo Service Bureau (Leo III/1) at Hartree House.Programmer and Support Services | Vera
Now retired |
Mike | Tyzack | | | LEO III/3, III/23, III/21, | Programmer in Intercode & CLEO at Dunlop Rubber Co and at Tote Investors Ltd | Analyst programmer on various IBM 360, IBM 370, IBM Series/I at installations in & around London |
Michael | Underwood | | | , | | |
Martin | Usher | | USA | , | machines: Leo 3 installed in the Electrical History: Engineering department of UMIST (Manchester)
This was a used system that was installed in the basement for students to play with. Most people didn't because they couldn't figure out how to work it (and it was a pain to crank up, especially when cold) but I spent quite a bit of time tinkering with it becuase at the time (mid 70s) it was the only 'tame' multiuser / multiprogram system available. I would run sets of programs, typically a simple 'travelling salesman' program to soak up cycles and then start smaller jobs on top to see how the system split up its workload.
So I'm not a 'user' per se...in fact quite soon after I used the LEO it got scrapped and the space that had been dedicated to it was converted to house a couple of VAXes. | This was at the start of my computing career.....I missed out on the Atlas but I'm pleased to have had some time on the LEO, its important (especially as most Americans think that all computing was invented by IBM and Microsoft!) |
John | Valentine | | | LEO III/4, | I stayed with LEO as it evolved through English Electric LEO Marconi to Australian Computers and then become part of ICL Australia. | Not really. Dropped out of computers and retrained as a stone mason, and now part-own a small masonry firm. It was the late shifts at Debenhams, all that cider which whiled away the hours! |
Faith Natalie | Van Rooyen | | South Africa | LEO III, LEO Computers South Africa, used by Rand Mines, | Joined in 1959 as junior trainee, assistant computer programmer, and sent to UK for training by Leo Computers UK. Retired in 1995 | Went cruising the oceans far away from computers. Still doing that. |
Penny | Vaughn | Reader | USA | LEO III/1 | History: Joined straight from Southampton University in October 1964. Left in summer 1969 when husband's job was transferred to Cardiff. Spent most of the 5 years at Hartree, (Guardian Insurance, plus others I can't name ), but the last few months at Newman Street. Began as a programmer, ended as a team leader. | 1969 - 1980 Designed and developed accounting systems for Wales Gas on Burroughs. 1980 - 1982 Database manager at Southern Gas on IBM 1982 - 1988 Systems development then planning officer for Furness Withy Shipping on Tandem and IBM. |
Michael | Vavrinek | | | , | | |
Stuart | Vernon | | | LEO III/13, | LEO III @ BOC Worsley 1969 | |
Jochen | Viehoff, | | | Academic, | Academic | |
Alfred | Vukic | | Australia | LEO III/15, | Maintenance Melbourne Australia | System 4 & ICL 2900 Support Engineer. After leaving ICL, I managed the service departments of STC and ADE. Then started my own business manufacturing and selling ergonomic furniture for 26 years. Now retired. |
Jim | Wade | | | LEO II/9, | Operator, Ilford Films 1962-1963 | Various technical and management positions in UK, USA, Netherlands, Switzerland and France with NCR and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Now an enthusiatic amateur jazz drummer. |
Alan | Wakefield | | UK | , | | |
Jane | Walker | | | , | | |
Charlie | Wallace | | Australia | LEO III/32, | Trainee programmer/programmer LEO 3 at Colvilles in Motherwell in the period 1968 - 1972 | worked for IBM from 1972 until I retired in 2005 |
Jim | Wallace | | | , | | |
Raymond | Wand | | | LEO III, | History: Started with Leo as a printed circuit wireman in 1962, learned how to solder properly!, got promoted to system test engineer and learned how to fault find the board which I had previously made.I did so well at this that I was promoted to quality control assistant!
I worked in the Minerva road site.
I left when they transferred to the midland site. | I only had one other job since leaving school(1960) - print room assistant with Geo Driver Ltd(automatic weighing machines) |
Harry | Warner | | Canada | CAV - Lucas, Leo III, | I worked as an operator on the CAV - Lucas, Leo III at Acton (High Street ?) from October 1963 to April 1964. One of my clearest (and dearest) memories is of a blond haired engineer (from Somerset?) who would get the printer to 'play' God Save the Queen. | I later programmed on the IBM 360 at Castrol, became Manager of Computer Services at Lever Bros. Canada and later was a Professor of Business Computing at Ryerson University in Toronto. I retired at age 47 and live on a small commune in BC. |
Dick | Warren | | | , | | |
John | Warren | | | , | | |
Sue | Warren | Griffiths | | LEO III/1, | History:Sue joined English Electric LEO straight from school in July 1964 as a Junior Trainee Programmer.Trained in CLEO and Intercode and worked on various systems including Kodak, Durlachers & Home Grown Fruits, to name but a few.Left in 1969.Dick continued working for CMG / Logica until being made redundant in 1995. | Since leaving LEO Sue has worked for Plessey (1 year), EMI (12 years), Thames TV (11 years) then my own company.We are now both retired and living in Southampton |
Richard | Watkins | | UK | Leo III | Worked on Leo III aa an operator for approx 5 years. | 1967 through 1974 |
Robin | Watkins | | UK | , | | Not a Leo employee but fascinated by the Leo story and the achievements - and still unheralded impact - of the first non-mathematical application development team |
Brian | Watson | | | LEO III/48, | History: Started with English Electric-Leo-Marconi - 1965. Initial training was programming on System 4/10 (never actually sold!!). First live system was, I think, a stock control system for Devonport Dockyards - I guess this would have been in 1966. Written in Cleo with bits of Intercode embedded. | |
Anthony | Watts | | | LEO III/48, | Programmer etc. on ICL 1900 & 2900 computers, late 1960s | |
David de Vere | Webb | | UK | LEO I, II/1, III/1, III/2, III/18, | LEO and Cerebos between 1960 and 1969 (with a period off at the LCC/GLC). Sage Holdings bought LEO Computers in South Africa and I worked with and/or for them between 1970 and 1994 (when I took early retirement). | |
Tony | Weber | | | , | Commenced employment at English Electric Ltd., Sydney, as a Commercial Cadet in 1957. In 1963 was appointed Accountant of English Electric LEO Computers Ltd in Sydney, with Peter Gyngell General Manager. Later the Company was named Australian Computers Ltd. With the merger of ICT to form ICL in 1968, my first role for the new group was financial accountant, and through the many years to 1975 was Finance Director for the Australian and Asian Pacific operation under the management of Ray Kilroy, Cliff Oldham, and Mike Gifford. 1975- 1979 I was General Manager of the successful data Services Division, with Neil Lamming being my Manager. From 1980 ヨ 1985 I was the Finance and Marketing General Manager of the ICL Asia pacific Division. In 1985 I resigned from ICL after 25 years + service. | In 1985 I resigned. I then moved to Prime Computers Ltd in Sydney, Hong Kong, and Boston USA, in executive finance roles. I came back to Australia in 1990 as their MD. In 1992, I moved to Microsoft Australia as their Finance Director. In 1994 I was asked by Microsoft to establish a software manufacturing for R.R.Donnelly Inc Sydney . I was appointed Managing Director, and the group initially built Microsoft packaged product (including Windows95), and then many other vendors products. In 1997 I retired from executive life; did some consulting for Fujitsu, the in 1997 joined the Board of a software manufacturer Prophecy International Ltd; a listed public Company in Adelaide as a non executive director where I continue to serve on a part time basis after 15 years. I have nearly logged up 50 years in the Computer industry. I have been very fortunate to have my employment in the growing and ever changing industry. |
Bob | Wehrley | | CANADA | LEO III/7, III/1, III/45, III/21, | Joined LEO/English Electric in 1965: Did LEO-3 engineer training at LEO's training school in Ealing. On completion I was temporally assigned to the J. Lyons III/7 at Elms House. My first permanent assignment was to the LEO Bureu machine III/1 at Hartree House. After 18 months was re-assigned on a dual machine assignment at the Durlacher Mordaunt III/45 at Moorgate and the Tote Investor Board's III/21 at Blackfriars. In 1967 sent on a RCA Spectra 4/ 70 training courses at English Electrics Stoke-on-Trent training school. In 1968 transferred to South Africa to work on a 4/70 machine at the South African Government's Bureau of Statistics in Pretoria. | Resigned from ICL in 1969. Worked for Honeywell in SA & Canada for 10years in various customer services related responsibilities. Then worked for DEC in Canada & US for 11 years in various Sales & Marketing roles. In 1994 got out of the computer hardware manufacturing side of the business and worked for several (4) Canadian software developers in Sr. Sales & Marketing positions before retiring in 2005. |
Paul | Weller | | | LEO III/11 LEO III/3, III/23, | 4th February 1963, joined LEO COMPUTERS LTD at Minerva road. Roll Number 73029 Trained as a Field Service Engineer. 1964 On site Service Engineer LEO III/11 at Smith & Nephew Ltd, Southall, Birmingham. 1964/66 Service Engineer, LEO III/3 and II | 1966 Moved to Kidsgrove,Coarses on KDF 7,Followed by commissioning four KDF 7 Systems for Fawley Power Station. 1967/69 Fawley Power Station,Hampshire, Installation and on site testing of KDF 7 and control systems for the four 500MW Generators. |
Leslie | Wellings | | | LEO III/26, | Computer operator GPO Charles Hse London 1964-1967 | |
Vic | Wellington | | | , | | |
Peter | Wells | | UK | Kdf 6, | | |
Sharyn | Wells | | | , | | |
Noel | Wesson | | | LEO I, II, | History: May 1956 Joined Lyons as trainee maintenance engineer. Went on to development of Powers Samas printer logic, then original document reader. Firstly at the old horse bus station at Olaf St, Shepherds Bush, then at Minerva Road labs N Acton, when they opened. Left in August 1958. | Joined English Electric in 1958 to be a Deuce maintenance engineer, eventually becoming a development engineer on computer peripherals |
Peter | Whale | | UK | Leo 3, | Engineering/Technical | worked at Minerva Road on Mag Tape interfacing in 61/62 |
Peter | Wharton | | | LEO III, | Joined Maths prog section at Minerva Road in 1962 | Continued with EELM,EEC,ICL till retirement. Seconded to RCA thenmoved to Kidsgrove (1967). Worked on System 4 and then VME, 2900 etc.Retired in 1998 as ICL Chief Engineer |
Shiela | Wharton | Milne | | LEO III, | LEO lll - Joined LEO Computers in 1961 as a programmer. Joined the software team working on the LEO lll Master Routine , working at Hartree House & Minerva Road. In May 1965 went to RCA in Cherry Hill, New Jersey along with about 12 other people. There fo | Off for 1.5 years having our son. Later joined Hilary Cropper’s "Home programmers group" where she worked on various projects for over 30 years. |
John | Wheeler | | U.K. | LEO I, LEOII | Early history | Maintenance development, Maintenance engineer training |
Alan | Whibberley | | UK | LEO III/33, III/24, | Site Service Manager | |
Pat | Whitaker | | | LEO III/18, | Cerebos, London 1964 - 1967 | |
Barry | White | | Australia | Tubemakers LeoIII AWA System 4/50 | Service Technician | I later looked after a KDF6 and then did a System 4 course in London and Kidsgrove.Left the company in 1975 |
Ian | White | | | , | Jul1955 1st LEO graduate trainee Assisted in preliminary work for LEO II. Mar 1956 I had to return North on the death of my Father. I was the 1st graduate trainee appointed from outside the Company (St. Andrews Univ.). | Ferranti Ltd Edinburgh 1959 West Instrument Ltd Brighton Scottish Manager. 1973 A founding Director of Anglicon Instruments Ltd Newhaven 1990 Retired on sale of Anglicon to CRL plc who became part of Emerson Electric USA |
Len | White | | | LEO III/8, III/40, | In 1965/6, I worked with Kenneth Williams in London during the birth pangs of Leo 4 (System 4?), but 2 English winters wore me down, so I moved to Johannesburg, where I masqueraded as Senior Operator on Leo 3 / 40 at Consolidated Glass Works in Germiston. The reality was that the local staff already knew more than me, and it was painfully obvious. So somewhat abashed, after 12 months -faking it- at Cons. Glass, I returned to Leo 3/8 in Sydney. But I was coming to see that working in an office, even a then state-of-the-art electronic one, was not my life's calling. Consequently, I walked away from the world of magnetic tape and ferrite cores, and didn't think about computers for another 30 years. | |
Peter | White | | | , | | |
Mervyn | Whitfield | | | , | | |
Edgar | Whitley | | | , | | |
Fred | Whittaker | | Canada | , | | |
Victor | Whittington | | | LEO III/9, | | Worked on LACES project 1967-1971. CCTA (now Cabinet Office) 1971-1976. Retired as Head of IS Strategy for HMC&E in June 1997 |
Chris | Williams | | | LEO III/26, III/44, III/58, III/70, | ICL 1974 - 1975 @ GPO Charles house, Cardiff, Bristol, Derby. | Went on to: Sperry Univac, Comparex (BASF),Tandem Computers, Alcatel Network Systems |
Colin | Williams | | UK | , | | |
Jen | Williams | Webster | | , | | |
John | Williams | | | LEO III/46, | LEO 326 at Lyons as support person for English Electric LEO Marconi/English Electric Computers. LEO 326 at Hartree House Bureau.1967 to 1989 Worked for English Electric LEO Marconi which became English Electric Computers and then merged after 18 months or | |
Ken & Carol | Williams | | | , | Our manager was I think Dave Hazelwood, who would visit twice a year from the great Metropolis, just to make sure everything was running smoothly and give us pep talk. | |
Rod | Williams | | | LEO III/48, | 1966-1967 Shift Leader on LEO III/48 at Devonport | |
Sheridan | Williams | | UK | Academic | | I started using valve-based computers in 1965 when working as a rocket scientist at the MoD RARDE. |
Wendy and Alan | Williams | | | , | Wendy is the great niece of Sir Joseph Lyons, which is why she has an interest in the Society. | |
John | Wilson | | United Kingdom | Placed orders through LEO using soup bowls | Leo customer | Worked for Lyons and successive companies for 40 yrs 1956 to 1996 |
Kevin | Wilson | | | , | | |
Michael | Wilson | | Canada | LEO III, KDP10 | LEO III Instructor in 1961. Chief Instructor in 1963 for LEO III and KDP10 at Minerva Road. I ran the first KDP 10 course in London. | Emigrated to Canada in 1964 and joined Honeywell Information Systems and set up their Canadian Training School.Left Honeywell in 1991 and worked for XEROX at their Canadian Research Centre. I retired in 1997. |
Neil | Wilson | | | , | I worked for seven years at the Minerva Road factory in Park Royal, so was involved in many of the Leo IIs and also Leo IIIs, until the merger with English Electric, when there was talk of moving up to the midlands. I worked with John Sylvester under TonyBarnes who was an ex RN instructor branch officer like myself. As I said I worked mainly on the magnetic tape input/output side,and had two visits to Ampex in Los Angeles when we were having problems with their machines. I remember my first job was checking the Division instruction logic which was designed by Colin Lewry for one of the earliest LEO IIs. And then in the printed circuit layout for one of the early packages. There was a lot of trouble at one time with oxide-shedding on tapes, leading to errors and on one occasion spending a whole night at the Dunlop installation in Birmingham sorting out a problem! | |
Paul | Wilson | | | , | | |
Derek | Wiltshire | | | LEO III/1, III/7, | From around 1962 Site engineer at Queensway and at J Lyons Computer Centre in Hamersmith.Worked in central Support with calls to most LEO III/326 installation. | Career: Engineering Team Leader for Leo, System 4/50/70/80, KDF6/9 and Elliot support group.
Project Engineering Manager. Sales Technical support. Acredited Project Manager working in many different ICL IT markets including most of the Utilites and latterly Call Centres.
Retired in October 2000 |
James | Wiltshire | | | LEO III, | Systems Analyst 1963-6 Freemans, 1965/68 RHM Foods | Ran unrelated business since then but have been a member of BCS since 1963 |
John | Wise | | Australia | LEO III/27, | CLEO programming course 1966 at Ealing, self taught Intercode, then two years programming a LEO 326. Great site! Great people! | Retired 2011 as Principal Enterprise Architect for Australia Post |
Norman | Witkin | | USA | LEO computers, EELM | Bayswater, Johannesburg 1959 - early 1960s | LEO II and III programming (intercode and LEO III master routine) incl British Oxygen and Rand Mines |
Greg | Wojtan | | Poland | LEO III/41, | Worked in Hartree House till Dec 1965, then did first tour abroad in NHKG, Ostrava, CSSR - followed by many other projects. | |
Ted | Wolfenden | | | , | | |
John | Wood | | South Africa | LEO III/2, III/40, | LEO Computers Ltd (EELM) South Africa 1966-1974 | |
Ken | Wood | | | LEO III/25, | I started working with English Electric Leo Marconi as it was known, in March 1967 as a data prep engineer working on Creed paper tape punches and verifiers, which fed the Leo in the computer room. I, with my other colleagues in the punch room, were called upon when it was maintenance day on the computer ie once a week, to carry out cleaning duties on the tape drives, printer and paper tape readers and punches. The site engineer in charge was a Mike Barton, with a team of engineers namely Mick Rolfe, Roy Nottage, and others, names now sadly forgotten. | Retired 2002 |
William | Wood | | | , | | |
John | Woods | | | LEO 111 at SMBP ltd Southern Computer Centre located at Hemel Hempstead | Programmer - Intercode and later CLEOfrom 1965-ish until 70's when the company moved to Sperry Univac machines. | |
Bob | Woodward | | UK | LEO I, II/1, III/1, III/4, | Joined LEO Computers in 1957, started as Computer Operator on LEO I and II/1 at Cadby Hall & Elms House.Via Shift Leader and Chief Operator to LEO III/1 as Operations Manager, included London Boroughs at Greenwich and III/12 at Research Labs. (?) | Centre File -Ops. manager for 2yearsHawker Siddeley Aviation from 1967 and eventually bcame Computer and Telecomms.Manager for British Aerospace.Retired in 1993 to a wellearned rest playing the usual golf and restoring antiques (furniture tha |
Alex | Woollard | | | LEO III/5, III/14, III/66, III/67, III/68, III/69, III/70, | Joined LEO at Minerva Road Feb 1962.After time in factory went out with III/5 to CAV Acton as one of the site engineers.Moved to Shell Mex & BP at Hemel Hempstead in early 1964 and then went into the Kidsgrove factory in March 1965. Worked on build and commissioning of peripheral subsystems including LECTOR, for LEO III until Winsford factory opened. Involved in recruiting and training of new technicians and commissioning of the first System 4 machine with early CDC disc drives., 6 Mb capacity! Asked to join small team to build and commission last 5 LEO 326's for GPO. The team included Bob Spargo, Brian Elsey and Alan Potter. Finished my time working as a Vendor Appraisal Engineer With A R Thompson. | Worked in Sales support at CDC moved to Sales at California Computer Corp (Calcomp) Plotting systems in 1978. Then finally in 1983 to Intergraph Corporation as Major Account Manager selling CAE systems for 3D modelling. Retired in 1999. Memo: No |
Peter John | Woolledge | | | , | | |
Jeremy | Woolsey | | | , | Joined LEO in Oct1961 as Components Engineer working for John Bruce at Minerva Rd. Retired from ICL in May 1995 | |
Philip | Wormwell | | Canada | EDSAC 2 Autocode, | Early computers history | Programming in late 60s, early 70s |
Geoff | Wright | | | , | | |
Michael | Wright | | | , | | |
Peter | Wright | | | LEO III/35, | LEOII/35 at British Gas, Bath. Joined Eng Elec as operator in Jan 68, absorbed into ICL July 68. British Gas had 'oversized' machine, so ICL took on evening/night shifts to run a bureau service (ICSL, operating out of Bristol office) | Many IT posts since, including Norwich Union (Orion then ICL 1900s), Courtaulds BCL, Debenhams, Hilton, Technicolor, London Underground. Now semi-retired/consultancy. |
Dave | Wynn | | | LEO III/3, III/13, III/18, | LEO Operator at BOC Manchester 1969-1975 | Still working at BOC in I.T. Support Services |
Arik | Yacobi | | UK | LEO III, | Nostalgia | Worked as qualified Social Worker/Probation Officer for 45 years. |
David | Yates | | | LEO II, | September 1950 joined Leo - Leo II Programming Course.
Systems Analysis / Consultancy on Insurance applications, Group Endowments, with Eagle Star, Legal & General, and Guardian
Training section - manuals, lecturing etc. re Leo III & CLEO.
Left Leo March 1962. | Joined National Physical Laboratory in 1962 and stayed for next 30 years.After retiring in 1992, wrote book: Turing's Legacy: a History of computing at, 1945 - 1995. Published by the Science Museum in 1997the National Physical Laboratory |
Michael | York | | | LEO III, | Joined Lyons as Work Study Trainee 1960. Transferred to LEO 1962 Production Engineer, assisted in transfer of PC board production to Kidsgrove. | |
Jefferey | Yost | | | Academic | Academic | |
Peter | Yoxall | | | , | | |
Chris | Zellner | | | , | | |
Ping | Zhang | | | , | | |
Constantino | Zinoni | | Switzerland | LEO III/1, III/7, | Joined LEO December 1960 from R.C.A. Communications, Inc,. Commissioning LEO III/1 at Minerva Road, then Site Engineer at Hartree House on LEO III/1.Chief Engineer LEO III/7 at Cadby Hall, Hammersmith. Back to Minerva Road in the Maintenance Development Section of the Support Group. | Left EELM Ltd July 1967 to join Collins Radio Company as a System Project Coordinator to work on telecommunications and computer projects. Most of the career spent in telecommunications/engineering companies mainly in consultancy positions in various parts of the world. Now retired in Switzerland. |
colin | argent | | England | Academic | Taught LEO III S and F at Letchworth 1970 to 1979 | Recorded the whole 10 week LEO III course onto audio tape. |
tony | darwen | | UNITED KINGDOM | LEO 111 machines | Career in LEO | Worked on Leo 111 in 1960's. continued as English Electric Leo Marconi. worked in Minerva Road, BOC Manchester and Kidsgrove |
Chris | de Wavrin | | South Africa | LEO III | Mar 61 to Sept 63 technical trainee Schedules, Testing & repair circuit boards, Drawing, Core Storage | |
ian | ellis | | Australia | Leo 3, | 1963 employed as operator on lll/8 1964 moved to engineering 1965 moved to UK to work | Best bung player in Sydney |
David | morley | | | Leo 3 Inland Revenue Worthing | link up with old colleagues | Programmer on punched card Bull machine 1964 - 1965 and then Leo 3 at Worthing from 1965 until its ICL replacement around 1972/3 |
Cornelis (Cees) | van der Mark | | The Netherlands | LEO III/2 | Joined LEO Computer Bureau in South Africa in 1963 as an operator. Left in 1966 to join EELM in Kidsgrove, trained to be a Site Operator for System-4 | |