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In the 1940s, a British catering company identified the part that only a computer could play in running its business. Since no such computer existed or was in prospect, it set about designing and building a business computer of its own. This book is a first-hand account of how this came about. The narrative sketches the 20-year life and times of LEO, the computer and organization that resulted. It tells of the trip to the USA in 1947 to discover the truth about the "Electronic Brain" that was being built for ballistic studies. It goes on to relate how a machine specially attuned to the more exacting demands of time-critical office work was built and programmed, leading to the running of the world's first regular, routine, business application in November 1951. There are individual accounts of some of the earliest jobs written by the consultants who brought them to fruition. The book concludes with the different strands coming together to provide the essence of the LEO credo of comprehensive, integrated, secure, action-stimulating implementations.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The story of innovation: the world's first office computer job; the background at Lyons; LEO - idea and realization; loading LEO; the second LEO and LEO Computers Ltd; LEO II in the field; end of the first generation; arrival of LEO III; the merger with English Electric; the range revolution; the 1965 paradox; LEO winds down; post Lude. Part 2 Pioneers: early days; the widening field; toward software; a reminiscence. Part 3 Innovators: Lyons teashops; Glyn Mills Bank - Army and Air Force officers' payroll; Stewarts and Lloyds steelworks; the Post Office and National Data Processing Service; Freeman's mail order; Royal Dockyards. Part 4 Innovating abroad and an evaluation: into South Africa; behind the Iron Curtain; the LEO approach - an evaluation. Appendices: diary of the 1947 trip to USA; interview with the Science Museum; demonstration script (1955) for the teashops distribution job.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780077092368
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
  • Height: 247 mm
  • Weight: 230 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0077092368
  • Publisher Date: 08 Mar 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: World's First Business Computer
  • Width: 174 mm


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