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.

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Speaker:	David Holdsworth
Date:	Tue 23^rdJan 2024
Time:	17:00 for 17:30
Location:	Manchester Metropolitan University. John Dalton Building, Room E0.05

This talk describes how someone completely unfamiliar with Leo III converted assembly language printer listings into working code, with the help of volunteers from the Leo Society. As well as describing techniques, there will be description of the surprises along the way. To today’s eyes the Leo III has some very odd features, and a few blind spots.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Centre for Computer History Exhibition of LEO history 18-19th
November 2017, including presentations by Peter Byford and colleagues. Peter Byford’s
presentation available on You Tube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zyZG0OxFI

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Leo Computer

Episode 4 of 5
Thu 7 Jan 2016
09:30
BBC RADIO 4

The company that brought computers into business was Lyons, known for its cakes and teashops. Aleks Krotoski tells the story of how this technology transformed office work.

BBC Radio 4 Recording

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LEO The Electronic office.

Radio 4 Series 1 Episode 2
First broadcast 15^th September 2015, 13:45
Duration: 13:46

Hannah Fry hears the incredible story of how a chain of British teashops produced the first office computer in the world. J Lyons and Company was the UK’s largest catering company, with 250 teashops across the country, developed Lyons Electronic Office or LEO in 1951.
BBC Radio 4 Recording

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John Aris – 1934 – 2010 Educated at Eton and Oxford, with a degree and life-long interests in the classics, joined LEO as a programmer in 1958. A career in LEO and its successor companies, including Chief Business Systems Engineer for ICL in 1968 was followed by heading the computer department of the Imperial Group, then becoming director of the NCC. He retained his interest in LEO up to the end of his life becoming a prominent and active member of the LEO Foundation and the LEO Computers Society.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/26/john-aris-obituary

http://www.vukutu.com/blog/2010/08/a-computer-pioneer/

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res52.htm#i

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