- We won Video of the year - The LEO Computers Society and partners Centre for Computing History are delighted to announce that their film about LEO, the world’s first business computer has won the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) Video of the Year Award 2022. LEO, otherwise known as the Lyons Electronic Office, was a pioneering British computer developed in the …
- LEO Matters June 2022 has been published - You can download/read it here
- Zoom Recording of a tour of the Centre for Computing History now available - Jason Fitzpatrick the CEO of the CCH gave LEO Computer Society members a virtual tour of the exhibits at the Museum on 27th April. The meeting was held on Zoom and recorded for those who wanted to attend but who were not able. The recording is now available on this Website and can be viewed …
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- Mary Coombs (Updated 26 March with additional links) - It is with great regret that we have to report that Mary Coombs, one of the LEO pioneers passed away on 28thFebruary 2022 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, at the age of 93. Mary was the World’s first female business computer programmer joining the LEO team in 1952. We will let members know when the funeral …
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- 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. Events for 2022. Follow this link for further information - There was another Zoom on Monday 24 January 2022 at 15:30 GMT. The topic was “Inside the LEO archive” and was led by Luke Thorne, our Archivist at the Centre for Computing History at Cambridge. A recording is available at https://leo-computers.org.uk/Videos/Clipped_LEO_Archive.mp4 . REUNION and LEO Exhibition: Sunday, 10th April 2022 From midday at the Victory …
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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 …