{"id":7632,"date":"2023-12-04T18:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leo-computers.org.uk\/leopedia.org\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:35:24","slug":"peter-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leo-computers.org.uk\/leopedia.org\/peter-bird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bird:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><u>Peter Bird<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 born 1934, died 6<sup>th<\/sup> August 2017. After a career in the Merchant Navyachieving his Masters certificate \u2018discovered\u2019 computing, studied programming and applied for Jobs in computing.\u00a0 Interviewed by Lyons for an operator job and joined Lyons 1964 as an operator on the LEO III.\u00a0 Promoted rapidly to Operations Manager, then overall Systems Manager.\u00a0 After retirement became interested in the history of Lyons and in the LEO story resulting in the publication of his books on LEO and subsequently on Lyons the Food Empire. The LEO Computer Society book LEO Remembered is dedicated to Peter. 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