LEO editor

• “I attended a Board meeting when for 1 hour and 59 minutes there was a heated debate about the price of a cup of tea in Teashops.
  ‘A rise of a penny or half a penny!’At the end of the row John Simmons, of whom everyone was in awe, asked for a further 2 million pounds for work on Leo. Passed without debate.”

 including listing of LEO artefacts and an introduction to extensive Oral History collection.

in Caminer, D.T., et al, editors, LEO: The Incredible Story of the World’s First Business Computer, McGraw- Hill, New York, Part 3, Chapter 20, pp. 243 – 248.

0.  LEO: The Incredible Story of the World’s First Business Computer, McGraw-Hill, New York, Part 4, Chapter 27, pp.321-336.❖ Aris, J.B.B. (1996) ‘Systems Design – Then and Now’, Resurr

Resurrection, Journal of the Computer Conservation Society, Summer.

Proceedings of Conference Computers in Europe: Past, Present and Future, Kyiv, pp 33 – 46, October.

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 4-15, July-September.

Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 253-398, December.

Who developed it?, The Times Supplement Tomorrow’s Today, 24 page supplement sponsored by Microsoft, pp 20-21, May 31st. Hilary Caminer holds a copy.

Beck, Arnold, (194) Oral History, Electronic Engineer, interviewed by William Asprey of the Charles Babbage Institute, describes working for Standard Telephone and Cables in the late 1940s on designing thermionic valves for Lyons and EDSAC which failed. Asked why they failed he notes “Mainly because it wasn’t reliable enough. I don’t want to make excuses, but when development things like that started, people didn’t really appreciate the standards of reliability that were required. Down the road here at EDSAC they didn’t appreciate the troubles they’d get with the cathode failures on lots of their double diodes” https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Arnold_Beck