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LEO pioneer Ray Shaw dies aged 98

By Richard Sharpe March 2023 The last of the original team to build the LEO…

19 March 2023

John Carrington Speaks to the Computer Conservation Society

John Carrington, who is the Chair of AIT’s Board of Trustees, gave a talk to…

27 February 2023
The CAV room at night

LEO Remembered: personal stories of applying early computers to business and science

Book Review by Richard Sharpe February 2023 LEO Remembered edited by Hilary Caminer and Lisa-Jane…

11 February 2023

Mavis Hinds: pioneering the use of computers

By Richard Sharpe October 2022 Few people have heard of Mavis Hinds: she is one…

3 October 2022

Technology in the 90s

Paving the way for a new millennium In the last decade of the 20th Century,…

28 August 2022

Ron Weeden

Ron Weeden spent over 30 years working in the IT industry on calculator and desktop computer technology. He got into the calculator business when they were mechanical devices and computers were in their infancy and ended his formal career at HP in the late 90s, by then a global leader in PCs and workstations.

28 June 2022

Capita proves that “boring” can be good

Richard Sharpe April 2022 The headline on an article in System House April 1990 said…

10 April 2022

The Great Database War 1978 to 1992

By Richard Sharpe February 2022 In February 1992 Oracle announced that it would build a…

1 February 2022

Ann Moffatt

Ann was Dame Stephanie Shirley’s first lieutenant at Freelance Programmers before being headhunted to Australia. She is a Fellow of both the Australian Computer Society and the British Computer Society. In 2002, Ann was inducted into the Australian ICT Hall of Fame and in 2011, into the Pearcey Hall of Fame, for lifetime achievement in the ICT industries. Microsoft list her as one of 12 Australian Innovators.

13 December 2021

LEO – The world’s first ‘Electronic Office’

The world’s first computer used for business purposes was the Lyons Electronic Office, or LEO.…

24 October 2021

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Watch this video on the history of LEO by The Centre for Computing History.

Watch our interview with Professor Frank Land

Obituary

Find out more about the life and achievements of LEO pioneer Ray Shaw

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Peter Hermon joined J. Lyons as a Mathematician after university. Learn more about LEO in his oral history interview.

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Book Review

Read Richard Sharpe’s book review of ‘Leo Remembered’ by by by Hilary Caminer and Lisa-Jane McGerty

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Our analysis of super computers and the Met Office, an early LEO customer

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Bill Jones talks about his time at British Steel working on a LEO and upgrading to an IBM computer

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