Springer. Chapter 21, pages 135-138, provides an account of LEO Computers Limited. See more at Springer Link
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Springer. For undergraduate students, Chapter 5.3, page 75, describes LEO I.
Chapter 5: Early Business Computing, pages 106 – 107 provide an account of the LEO story including a review of the legacy of LEO and a picture of a Lyons teashop on page 108. Published by Sage Publications India PVT Ltd, New Delhi, and by Sage Publications Inc in Thousand Oaks, California, and by Sage Publications Ltd, London. See more at Coventry University
Tebbo. The book is a type of encyclopaedia including a wide range of technology topics each supplemented by a rich set of references. A short, well sourced, chapter on LEO, page 50-56, is included.
Pelican.
The author notes LEO among the pioneers and provides a brief account of the LEO story. See more at Google Books
Rose, Michael (1969) ‘Computers, Managers and Society’ Read More »
Andrews UK Limited. The book is Dame Shirley’s autobiography and as such deals with much more than her involvement with IT and the establishment of Freelance Programmers. It is included in this listing because the formation of F. International, overlaps the foundation and growth of LEO Computers and provides a further perspective on developments in that period. It also notes the help given to her by Kit Grindley (see obituaries below) in the early days of her company. See more
Shirley, Stephanie, (2012), ‘Let IT Go’ Read More »
Hardcover’, Digital Press, March 16, 1981. Pages 148 -151 report on the precedence of the LEO initiative in the development of business computing. See more at Google Books
Stern, Nancy B. (1981) ‘From ENIAC to UNIVAC: Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers Read More »
Kendal Hunt publishers. The publication is about the relationship between ideas (philosophy, Christianity) and art/technology. The intended readership is graphic design students, but is also used a general education class for some
students. Chapter 10, The Computer, Animation, & Gaming includes a photo of LEO I and a brief account of the building of the first business computer by J. Lyons &
Co. The author, Ron Sumner is an artist a Professor at Liberty University in Florida. Available to Purchase
in ‘Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communications Technology’, Vol. 387, Springer, November 2012. Chapter 2, Frank Land, Remembering LEO, pp. 22-42. See more at Springer Link