Charles Babbage Institute and University of Minnesota Libraries Digital Conservatory,-Charles Babbage Institute and University of Minnesota Libraries DigitalConservatory, provides links to any LEO material held in the Library including the Pinkerton Oral History. Seehttp://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/59493/browse?type=subject&value=LEO(Computer)
Association for Information Systems (AIS).-,the body representing the academic Information Systems discipline world-wide, publishes two journals, the high repute AIS Journal and the Communications of the AIS. Both journals have published articles on LEO or referring to LEO, and it organises major conferences annually on the discipline. The AIS provides an annual award to members who have made significant […]
The Museum of Communication, Berlin.-unites past and present of communication in its permanent exhibition: therefore it illustrates the origins, the development, and the future perspectives of the information society. Appealing rotating exhibitions cast light on different aspects of communication. The permanent exhibition features a cabinet that shows the history of digitalization. Within this cabinet information about and pictures of […]
Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.-Purchased a Microprogram Module from a standard LEO III in 2013. The item is not on display but shown on its website together with a brief account of the LEO story written by Barbara Ainsworth. Seehttp://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/12682 The curator is (2018)Nicholas Crotty: ncrotty@museum.vic.gov.au
Australian Computer Museum Society.-(www.acms.org.au). The society has an extensive collection of 10,000 artefacts collected over the last 25 years but currently lacks a catalogue of its collection. Contact Sebastian Boell
Heinz Nixdorf Museum (HNF), Padeborg Germany.-Claims to be the largest Computer Museum in the world. But currently its only LEO holding is the Caminer et al LEO book in the Museum Library. Its Director, Dr Jochen Viehoff is keen toestablish a LEO presence to show the LEO role in the history of computing.http://www.hnf.de/en/home.htmlA member of its staff, Ralf Buelow, publishes […]
Computer History Museum, SiliconValley-http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/The Museum holds and displays a number of LEO II relics including part of LEO II/3the Corby Stewarts & Lloyds Machine, and various LEO books and documents. Itsrecord of holdings with photos is well organised and include the oral history of LEOveteran Chris Date (see Oral Histories below) and can be found onhttp://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/early-computer-companies/5/110/468http://www.computerhistory.org/search/?q=LEO+Computers&site=chm_collection&client=chm_collection&output=xml_no_dtd&submit.x=2&submit.y=2 TheMuseums senior […]
University of Melboune Archive: -holds collection of Shell Oil Australia Archive, including material relating to the purchase and use of LEO III in Australia
University of Melboune Archive: -holds collection of Shell Oil Australia Archive, including material relating to the purchase and use of LEO III in Australia
Private Holdings -Many individuals, dead and alive; members of the LEO Computers Society or ex LEO employees, have private collections of LEO artifacts, documents and photographs, some of which are of historical importance. They include:
Peter Bird -private archive, indexed and boxed and held at Cambridge Centre for Computer History.
David Caminer -private archive, collected by Ray Hennessy and Hilary Caminer, part indexed and boxed, and part of the collection scanned and indexed at the Cambridge Computer History collection
John Aris -private archive, collected by Ray Hennessy
Frank Land-private archive, held by Elisbetta Mori.
Ernest Lenaerts -100 notebooks, quarto, compiled in manuscript, dating from 1949 to the early 1950s. The notebooks have been donated to the LEO Computers Society by Paul and David Lenaerts, Ernest’s sons, and have been scanned into digital format by Bill Purvis, a member of the Computer Conservation s They can be viewed at http://www.billp.org/LEO“
Wally Dutton-Wally’s daughter Andrea has donated her father’s collection of LEO memorabilia including published papers dating back to 1954, newspqper articles and photographsThere are many other private hoards and the LEO Computers Society would welcome information about such holdings.
