Caminer H., editor (2016) ‘LEO remembered: by the people who worked on the world’s first business computers’, LEO Computers Society. Collection of reminiscences, testifying to a sense of collective endeavour among the LEO community.
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Lenaerts, E. (1948) ‘Development of the LEO Computer: Brief Description of EDSAC’.
Peter Bird collected and had bound (September 1992) the photocopies of the handwritten description of EDSAC compiled by Ernest Lenaerts in October 1948, with contributions from David Caminer, Derek Hemy, Thomas Thompson and others. It formed the basis of a larger publication titled The Layman’s Guide to LEO – see below. The volume was donated to the LEO Computers Society by Philip Bird, November 2017.
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Simmons,J.R.M. (1962) ‘LEO and the Managers’, Macdonald, London.
The paperless office concept of the Lyons Comptroller, whose support was vital to the LEO project
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Maurice Wilkes User-driven innovation: the world’s first business computer. IEE Review ( Volume: 42, Issue: 4, 18 July 1996)
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Caminer, H. and McGerty, L editors (2022) LEO Remembered, 2nd edition, by the people who worked on the world’s first business computer
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Agar J., (2003), The Government Machine. A Revolutionary History of the Computer, MIT Press. Pages relating to LEO: pp. 266, 302–306, 314, 325, 421
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Ahmed, Haroon (2013) ‘Cambridge Computing – The First 75 Years’, TMI Publishers.
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Anon, (1962), Automatic Programming Languages for Business and Science, a two-day conference held at Northampton College of Advanced Technology with the co-operation of the BCS.in April 1962. T.R. Thompson presented a paper on considering the fundamental principles for expressing a procedure for a computer application independently of any compiler or computer considerations. The Conference papers are reviewed by LEO’s J. Caldwell.
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Anon (2011) ‘ICL Mainframe Computers’, Books LLC.
This 19 page pamphlet gives a brief description of a number of UK designed and manufactured computers including the LEO range, pages 18 and 19. All the texts are lifted from Wikipedia entries and include some errors made in these entries.
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Arms, William Y, (2019), Early Years of Academic Computing, Cornell University, Internet University Press. The memoirs include a brief account of the LEO story including a photo of LEO III. See http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/titlepage.html
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