You can read the article at ITNOW Volume 66 in the event there is a paywall there is a brief summary below as well as the original Press Release.
A project celebrating the world’s first business computer took a highly commended second place in the BCS IT Industry Awards’ charities category. The project explores the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) — a machine remembered as the world’s first business computer and that, more importantly, kept tea and cake flowing across the UK during the early 20th century.
Backed by the National Lottery and produced jointly by the Leo Conservation Society and the Cambridge Located Centre for Computing History, Virtual LEO 1 brings to life the original LEO computer. See more about Virtual LEO I here
The article additionally notes the short documentory film telling the LEO story produced as part of the project and available for public viewing on You Tube, and itself an award winner Viewable Here
The original Press release is on the LCS Website Here
Copyright © 2024 LEOPEDIA
At a meeting held annually to reward achievements in the IT industry the LEO Computers Society (LCS) and the Centre for Computing History (CCH) were awarded 2nd place (‘Highly Commended’) in the charities category of the BCS’s UK IT awards. This was for the successful Virtual LEO l application.
Published in the Computer Conservation Society Issue 104 Spring 2024
The Original Press release can be viewed Here
Copyright © 2024 LEOPEDIA
Billy Dalziel of the Corby Heritage centre gave a presentation about Stewart and Lloyds and the LEO II installed at the Corby Steelworks. The presentation was on 05 May 2023 and can be viewed at the LEO Computer Society Website The presentation is rich in the industrial heritage of the UK and Corby in particular, with photos of the town and smokey steel works. Billy also tells the story of the eventual replacement of the LEO II, by an IBM 360, on the pretext that they needed to do it to handle decimalisation as LEO couldn’t.
Billy Dalziel and Corby Steelworks LEO II: Read More »
| Speaker: | David Holdsworth |
| Date: | Tue 23rd Jan 2024 |
| Time: | 17:00 for 17:30 |
| Location: | Manchester Metropolitan University. John Dalton Building, Room E0.05 |
David Holdsworth – The Leo III Reloaded: Read More »
Maggie Philbin traces the remarkable history of IT through the BBC sound archives from the birthplace of the world’s first electronic computer, Bletchley Park. From November 2013.
Maggie Philbin’s Programme This is the header but the 3 hour programme is marked as being unavailable. But there is a segment we have on the LCS Website Lyons Electronic Office and the people which was captured by Neville Lyons
BBC Radio 4 Extra at Bletchley Park Read More »
LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers: A short film sponsored by GOOGLE made to
highlight the contribution of the team behind LEO computers, to celebrate the 60th
anniversary of it taking on its first “office job” on November 17th 1951.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn24SdW64I
LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers: Read More »
Recording of the week:
Frank Land OBE – from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brain
This week’s selection comes from Dr Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History
of British Science. https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2019/06/recording-of-the-week-frank-land-obe-from-nazi-germany-to-the-tea-shop-ectronic-brain.html
British Library 24th June 2019: Read More »
LEO The Automatic Office, 1957 promotional film highlighting the way LEOs were
constructed and their many varied business uses, ranging from teashop inventories to
Ford’s payroll. Copyright LEO Computer Society. Business Uses Also held by Computer History Museum Silicon Valley http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/early-computer-companies/5/110/2260 and
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102705993
LEO The Automatic Office: Read More »