Archives

John Simmons Papers (1924-1994), Ref: GB 152 GB 152 MSS.363,
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/80e05c8d-6acf-3e84-8999-1a9a8321cad5.
See John Simmons Archive at Warwick University Modern Records Centre Showcase:
Pioneers: Innovators in Science and Technology
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/images/pioneers/ for a
number of items on LEO, now digitised, see
www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/leo
Boxes of manuscripts from David Caminer and John Aris are catalogued at

http://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/ARI/2 Note (April 2019) 9 boxes have been
transferred to Cambridge Centre for Computer History as part of HLF project. For full
list see LEOPEDIA annex

The Jim Austin Computer Collection is a preservation of over 500 machines from
small micros to mainframes and super computers. Some of the items can be seen on
the web site http://www.computermuseum.org.uk/ . The Collection acquired some
LEO III items in July 2012. Visitors are welcome on request

http://www.shadyoldlady.com/location.php?loc=617 notes the site of the First
Business Computer at Cadby Hall with a short piece about the origins of LEO

Internet Scripophily Museum of Computing (ISMOC), a virtual museum created
by Franky Leeuwerck on computing history represented by bond and share
certificates. In 2017 J. Lyons and LEO Computers were added to the website with a
chronology of the LEO story. See Internet Scripophily Museum of Computing

Neville Lyons – descendent of the original Joe Lyons gave a series of public lectures
on the History of the Lyons Company and on LEO Computers. Information about the
8th June 2016 lecture can be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-joe-lyonsstory-food-for-thought-tickets-24424562524# and for the 22nd June 2016 lecture at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-story-of-leo-the-worlds-very-first-business–computer-tickets-24424811268# X

There is a u3a plan for my zoom talk on the Joe Lyons Story for 23rd March, to
be followed hopefully with LEO talk later on. Publicity for JL talk is now on u3a
website including full synopsis that I sent them. See www.u3a.org.uk/events

Institute of Administrative Management (IAM), started life in 1915 as Office
Machinery User’s Association. John Simmons acted as chair and president for many
years and some of its members including Wills were early LEO users. Its journal
includes two articles on the history of IAM including many references to John
Simmons and the Lyons/LEO story. See Gibson in previous section.

London Remembers – aiming to capture all memorials in London. It includes the
LEO plaque laying ceremony near Cadby Hall including links to the video and other
material about J. Lyons & Co. See
https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/leo-world-s-first-business-computer

2002 Seizing the Moment: The Far Reaching Effects of Broadband of
Economy and Society
David Cleevely Analysis Group
2004 Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurs and Company successes Hermann
Hauser
Director, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd IET.tv footage
2005 ICT Use in Rural India: Innovations Bridge the Digital
Chasm Professor Subhas
Bhatnagar Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad IET.tv footage
2006 e-Science and Cyberinfrastructure Professor Tony Hey
VP Scientific Computing, Microsoft, USA IET.tv footage
2007 Invention to Phenomenon (Sensation?) Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
2008 Web 2.0 (Social Media to Inspire Change) Alex Balfour IET.tv footage
2009 IT: Is it on the money? John Carey, Former Head of Business, Strategy &
IT and interim
CTO, Lloyds TSB IET.tv footage
2010 The relentless march of the microchip Steve Furber IET.tv footage
2011 Internet for all – is the real barrier to reaching this vision: demand,
awareness, usability
or access technology? Dr Mike Short IET.tv footage

2012 Connecting Computers with the human brain Prof.Kevin Warwick
(University of Reading)
http://conferences.theiet.org/pinkerton/