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Lyons &amp; Co.<\/a> in London heard of the ENIAC and sent a small team in the summer of that year to study what was happening in the USA, because they felt that these new computers might be of assistance in the huge amount of administrative and accounting work which the firm had to do. The team met with Col. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Goldstine\">Herman Goldstine<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_for_Advanced_Study\">Institute for Advanced\u00a0 Study<\/a> in Princeton who wrote to Hartree telling him of their search. As soon as he received this letter, Hartree wrote and invited representatives of Lyons to come to Cambridge for a meeting with him and Wilkes. This led to the development of a commercial version of EDSAC developed by Lyons, called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LEO_(computer)\">LEO<\/a>, the first computer used for commercial business applications. 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