- LEO: New film celebrates the 70th anniversary of the world’s first business computer - Lyons Electronic Office: The Story of the World’s First Business Computer To mark the 70th anniversary of LEO, the world’s first business computer, the LEO Computers Society and the Centre for Computing History (CCH) are launching a new specially commissioned short film. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of efforts to preserve …
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- LEO 70th Birthday - We’re sharing some business computing history over the next week as we lead up to the 70th anniversary of LEO completing its first program. Come & learn more at our LEO Weekend on 4th – 5th Dec, and see our special exhibition & film screening: Link to Page at CCH
- Lyons visit to the USA 1947 - This ‘American Tour’ report kickstarted the world of business computing. Lyons visited the USA in 1947 to learn about computers, from ENIAC to IBM. They weren’t impressed – but found out about EDSAC here in Blighty, then built their own machine This ‘American Tour’ report kickstarted the world of business computing. Lyons visited the USA …
- LEO Matters Issue Nov 2021 Volume 10 – 70th Anniversary Issue - LEO Matters from Novemeber 2021 in desktop published format. Edited by Hilary Caminer and published by Bernard Behr. Contents: (Clicking on the highlights below will take you straight to the page containing the item highlighted. – Note on slow Internet connections this may not work and you will be taken to page 1 in all …
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- Dates for your diary. 70th Anniversary events. Follow this link for further information - 30th November 1951: This was the date that LEO triumphantly succeeded in running its Bakery Valuation programmes – the first piece of commercial business computing in the world. There will be a celebratory zoom at 18:30 on 30th November 2021. There will be some special messages – about LEO and Lyons and the premier of …
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- LEO MOMENTS IN HISTORY - September 1951 – At J. Lyons & Co on Wednesday, 5th September 1951 the Bakery Valuations programme was run to completion on real data as an experiment to test the hardware. As noted in Ernest Lenaerts notebook for that date it ran from 3:50 to 5:35 without a fault and was the longest run of any …
Zoom For LEO Computers Society Members - We are organizing a new series of Zoom Meetings. See Below Wednesday Online celebrations! During the past year we have discovered that online forums and presentations have been a great way to get our members together. Zoom has allowed former colleagues, now living in different continents to reminisce together and for, 22nd September 17.00 BST …- Antiques Road Trip - The BBC programme Antiques Road Trip made a stop off at Cambridge to visit the Cambridge Computer History Museum and interviewed Jason Fitzpatrick the Museum founder. Jason covered many interesting topics including early calculators, EDSAC, LEO and the BBC Micro and ARM chips. You can hear and view the section from Cambridge Here
- Presentation on J. Lyons and Company now on YouTube - The Presentation that Neville Lyons gave on the LEO Computers Society Zoom on 13 May 2021 is now on YouTube
- 70th Anniversary - 2021 marks LEO’s 70th Anniversary Year – unfortunately the Trustees felt they had to postpone the Reunion from 2021 but replace it with a series of Zoom events to celebrate the events of 1951 (see the post on the new Zoom dates) The new date for the Reunion at the Victory Services Club is Sunday, …