A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer

A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer
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The eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world's first office computer and the Lyons Teashop.The Lyons teashops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression and the war, though to the 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history.In the 1930s John Simmons, a young maths graduate in charge of the clerks' offices, had a dream: to build a machine that would automate the millions of tedious transactions and process them in as little time as possible. Simmons' quest for the first office computer – the Lyons Electronic Office – would take 20 years and involve some of the most brilliant young minds in Britain.Interwoven with the story of creating LEO is the story of early computing, from the Difference Engine of Charles Babbage to the codecracking computers at Bletchley Park and the instantly obsolescent ENIAC in the US. It is also the story of post war British computer business: why did it lose the initiative? Why did the US succeed while British design was often superior?

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Georgina Ferry. A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer

A Computer Called LEO

GEORGINA FERRY

Contents

Preface

1 A Mission to Manage

A Family Affair

‘One Best Way’

2 The Electronic Brain

ENIAC

3 Made in Britain

Computing on the Cam

Lyons Goes to Cambridge

The First Programs

4 A Computer for Lyons

Time for the Engineers

Building LEO

5 LEO goes to work

LEO Goes Public

Into the teashops

6 In Business

Dream for Sale

LEO goes to Market

Second Generation

7 Leo’s Last Roar

The ‘Master Plan’

End of the LEO Line

Last Throw of the Dice

LEO’s Final Comeback

Epilogue

Sources. LEO and Lyons

Computer History

Scientific Management, Office Work and Automation

Index

P.S. Ideas, Interviews & Features …

About the Author. Profile of Georgina Ferry

Snapshot

Top Ten Favourite Books

About the Book. A Critical Eye

Imagining the Future

Read On. Have You Read?

If You Loved This You’ll Like …

Find Out More

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher

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