Penny Woodward, Operator Coventry City LEO !!!/28. I experienced the Leo 111
computer whilst employed by Coventry City Council between 1970-1973. I was a
computer operator working three shifts, four persons to a shift, to keep council’s finances
running smoothly. Although initially engaged as a trainee computer programmer, part of
the training and experience was to work in operations, and I enjoyed the work so much I
preferred to stay in that field and asked to remain in my current post. I worked on that
machine until it was replaced, and subsequently scrapped. I left that council and took up
other work but eventually went back into operations for Rugby Borough Council on a
different machine, quite different but almost as antique. Regrettably I took no physical
pieces of the old machine but attach some pictures just before it was scrapped,
unfortunately not of a good quality
