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The Cray XC40 supercomputer installed at Exeter

Supercomputers and the Met Office: at the forefront of weather and climate science    

Main image: The Cray XC40 supercomputer. The Met Office currently has three XC40s, installed in…

28 June 2023
English Electric KDF9 (Lyons Electronic Office) Magnetic Tape Reader, Bracknell, 1966

The Met Office and supercomputers: a timeline

Main Image: English Electric KDF9 (Lyons Electronic Office) Magnetic Tape Reader, Bracknell, 1966 The Meteorological…

7 June 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

Iconic Companies

Across the history of the commercial use of IT in the UK, some companies stand…

26 February 2021

Peter Hermon

Peter Hermon joined LEO Computers after he obtained first class honours from St. John’s Oxford, and seeing an advertisement for a mathematician from J. Lyons & Co. He was one of the most brilliant LEO recruits and quickly made his mark as a programmer and consultant. He moved to BOAC where he was responsible for the development of BOADICEA the airline reservation system which became a major UK success story and later became a Director of British Airways.

19 December 2019

Professor Frank Land

One of the pioneers of early commercial computing who worked on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) and became the first Professor of Informatics in the United Kingdom.

28 August 2018
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