LEO. The first business computer
Details:
- Author(s) Bird, Peter
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 272pp; illus
- Publisher Hasler
- Place Published Wokingham
Topics:
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Information: creation, collection & processing
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written by a former staff member of J Lyons & Co who had been at work there at the time of Leo. It forms 'an account of how J Lyons & Co Ltd became involved in the design and manufacture of a single commercial electronic computer, albeit the first in the world using a programmed instructions to perform routine clerical tasks'. Also considers the functional needs of the company out of which Leo arose and the ways in which these were managed ahead of Leo. The chapters include; 'Company origins'; 'Clerical efficiency endeavours'; 'Computer construction begins'; 'Full computer manufacture'; 'Further automation improvements'; 'End of an era - a new beginning'. Many appendices detail technical aspects of Leo