LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers:-LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers: A short film sponsored by GOOGLE made tohighlight the contribution of the team behind LEO computers, to celebrate the 60thanniversary of it taking on its first “office job” on November 17th 1951.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn24SdW64I
British Library 24th June 2019:-Recording of the week:Frank Land OBE – from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brainThis week’s selection comes from Dr Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral Historyof British Science. https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2019/06/recording-of-the-week-frank-land-obe-from-nazi-germany-to-the-tea-shop-ectronic-brain.html
LEO The Automatic Office:-LEO The Automatic Office, 1957 promotional film highlighting the way LEOs wereconstructed and their many varied business uses, ranging from teashop inventories toFord’s payroll. Copyright LEO Computer Society. Business Uses Also held by Computer History Museum Silicon Valley http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/early-computer-companies/5/110/2260 andhttp://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102705993
The Centre for Computer History:-The Centre for Computer History Exhibition of LEO history 18-19thNovember 2017, including presentations by Peter Byford and colleagues. Peter Byford’spresentation available on You Tube athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zyZG0OxFI
Paramount News:-Paramount News (Film show in week commencing15th February 1954): Brian BEGGinterviews Mr THOMPSON re the applications of the machine; woman uses addingmachine; man takes tape from woman & feeds into “Brain”; man takes stack of cards &feeds them into “Brain”; machines electronics at work; “Brains” printer produces payslips.
LEO The Automatic Office:-LEO The Automatic Office, 1957 promotional film highlighting the way LEOs wereconstructed and their many varied business uses, ranging from teashop inventories toFord’s payroll. Copyright LEO Computer Society. Business Uses Also held by Computer History Museum Silicon Valley http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/early-computer-companies/5/110/2260 andhttp://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102705993
LEO at British Oxygen in 1966:-LEO at British Oxygen in 1966: A Film made by British Oxygen demonstrates howtheir LEO computer has enabled them to improve many aspects their operations andemphasises the application of statistical methods to provide management informationwith decision support systems. The Film can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_0Astp1dEU
LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers:-LEO: Celebrating The Pioneers: A short film sponsored by GOOGLE made tohighlight the contribution of the team behind LEO computers, to celebrate the 60thanniversary of it taking on its first “office job” on November 17th 1951.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrn24SdW64I
Ernest Kaye LEO 1952:-Ernest Kaye LEO 1952: An extract from the 1952 show featuring Ernest Kaye andhis involvement in the development of Lyons Electronic Office (LEO). It includes aglimpse of how he looked 60 years ago, barely any different from today.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6TX70A3Rc
Leo II Computer:-Leo II Computer: The latest in out series of early technologies from MichaelBennettLevy’s collection that went up for auction in October last year looks at the worlds firstcommercial business computer, the LEO II/3. Entering service in May 1958, the LEOII/3 (Lyons Electronic Office II/3) at Stuart and Lloyds in London was the world’s firstcommercial business […]
Mary Coombs shares her story:-Mary Coombs was a programmer for LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office that was the world’s first business computer. Produced by Google as part of a series of short films high lighting women’s involvement in the early days of computing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6DRr0Dhn4Q
Taking the Punch Out of Input,:-Taking the Punch Out of Input, 1970’s era film by Lyons Computer Servicesfocusing on input devices for LEO III range developed in 1960’s.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IPVdHHRc2Q
Electronic Data Processing.:-Electronic Data Processing. A series of film strips produced by the Institute of OfficeManagement by its EDP Committee covering LEO I, Elliott 405 and Ferranti Pegasus.Available from Kevin Murrell at the National Museum of Computer History,Bletchley. Copy held by LEO Computers Society.
Unveiling Ceremony, on the 29th November 2016:-Unveiling Ceremony, on the 29th November 2016 a commemorative plinth was unveiledin Lyons Walk in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, a site overlooking the placeonce occupied by Cadby Hall the headquarters of J. Lyons & Co and the location of theworld’s first business computer LEO. The unveiling took place exactly 65 years afterLEO carried […]
The Centre for Computer History:-The Centre for Computer History Exhibition of LEO history 18-19thNovember 2017, including presentations by Peter Byford and colleagues. Peter Byford’spresentation available on You Tube athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zyZG0OxFI
YOUTUBE 1969 Film:-YOUTUBE 1969 Film celebrating 20 years of Ostrava Steel Works including a numberof shots of their LEO III including shots with its chief engineer Jiri Baranek. The LEOepisodes occur at 3m 24s, 7m 42s, and 9m 58s in the film. Seehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OYm5GeZXc4&t=3s. Another 1971 Film of the steelworks featuring LEO can be found athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpm6LYgnb8w 7.46 minutes […]
ITV Grantchester:-The episode shown on January 25th 2019 features the fictionalcomputer UNIAC, based on EDSAC and notes it working on a business system for ateashop enterprise around 1960
Hot Millions:-Hot Millions: a 1968 crime comedy made by MGM. The story depicts Ustinov as acomputer operator using the computer to steal millions. It was directed by Eric Till andproduced by Mildred Freed Alberg, from a collaborative screenplay by Ira Wallach andstar Peter Ustinov. MGM rented a LEO III/326 computer from the Post Office for thescenes […]
Hilary Caminer CD, 2001:-Hilary Caminer notes: a CD recording of my father and John Aris giving the 2ndPinkerton lecture at the Guildhall 50th anniversary of first LEO lob conference – withFrank Land proposing the vote of thanks
British Library 24th June 2019:-Recording of the week:Frank Land OBE – from Nazi Germany to the tea shop electronic brainThis week’s selection comes from Dr Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral Historyof British Science. https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2019/06/recording-of-the-week-frank-land-obe-from-nazi-germany-to-the-tea-shop-ectronic-brain.html
You Tube – Released November 30th 2021:-You Tube – Released November 30th 2021 to mark the 70th anniversary of thefirst live run of a business application on a computer, the LEO I at CadbyHall HQ of J. Lyons and Co. a Film, duration about 27 minutes made by BoffinFilms and commissioned by the joint LCS and CCH project funded by the […]
