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	LEO computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lyons and Co., one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the Second World War.
		Lyons used LEO I initially for valuation jobs, but its role was extended to include payroll, inventory, and so on.
		One of LEO I 's early tasks was the elaboration of daily orders which were phoned in every afternoon by their shops and used to calculate the overnight production requirements, assembly instructions, delivery schedules, invoices, costings and management reports.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/LEO_computer (886 words)

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		Lyons and Co., a successful catering company, had the foresight in the late 1940s to realise that great savings could be made in terms of manpower and time if some of their more mundane procedures could be automated.
		LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office, as the computer came to be called.
		LEO, the first truly commercial computer in the world, is now sufficiently old to be evaluated in a detached historical perspective, but recent enough for most of the participants still to be available to tell their tale.
	www.jpbowen.com /publications/thes-leo.html (1015 words)

	LEO computer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LEO I's clock speed was 500 (One thousand periods per second) kHz, with most instructions taking about 1500 (A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers) ms to execute.
		The LEO project were also pioneers in (additional info and facts about outsourcing) outsourcing – in 1956 they started doing the payroll calculations for Ford UK and others on the LEO I machine.
		In 1954, with the decision to proceed with LEO II and interest from other commercial companies, Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd. In 1963 it was taken over by (additional info and facts about English Electric) English Electric and this led to the breaking up of the team that had inspired LEO computers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leo_computer2.htm (678 words)

	LEO computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lyons, one of the UK's leading catering and food manufacturing companies in the first half of the 20th century, sent two of its senior managers to the USA in 1947 to look at new business methods developed during the second world war.
		One of LEO I 's early tasks was the elaboration of daily orders which were phoned in every afternoon by their shops and used to calculate the overnight production requirements, assembly instructions, delivery schedules, invoices, cotings and management reports.
		In 1954, with the decision to proceed with LEO II and interest from other commercial companies, Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd. In 1963 it was taken over by English Electric and this led to the breaking up of the team that had inspired LEO computers.
	hallencyclopedia.com /LEO_computer (1000 words)

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		LEO I was being used for payroll and office data processing in early 1954, prior to similar use by GE of their UNIVAC 1.
		Lyons decided to wait to start building their copy of EDSAC after it was demonstrated to work by computing a table of primes.
		We decided that LEO needed multiple channels for both input and output, to be fitted with buffers that could be read in a single operation and were large enough to hold all the data items of a given kind, e.g., one person on the payroll.
	ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/TheCompMusRep/TCMR-V21.html (2784 words)

	Leo Lyons
		Leo was hired to play in the club’s house band with Tony Sheridan and yet he still found the time to guest at the Top Ten Club with guitarist Albert Lee.
		Leo always had a passion for the recording process and it was a logical step to go into record production.
		Leo’s songs came to the attention of Nashville publishers Hayes Street Music who signed him as a staff writer and after several years of commuting from the United Kingdom he made the move to Nashville.
	www.ten-years-after.com /_private/bio/leobio.htm (740 words)

	The British Lyons - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LEO was designed by business people, not techies, and the authors are adamant that this was the secret of its success.
		Lyons did not intend to sell LEO, but because of its clear technical lead over other developments in the UK and US, it soon excited interest from other firms.
		Lyons was going through a bad financial patch and felt it could no longer afford the expense of developing new models.
	www.vnunet.com /computing/analysis/2072484/british-lyons (1677 words)

	Ten Years After Leo Lyons
		Leo Lyons labored through the early sixties in the heart of the British rock alley between London and Hamburg Germany.
		Leo: Yeah, people are asking us to do shows all over the place and basically what I like to do is go out and play live and fit the recording in around our show commitments.
		Leo: It's difficult to say maybe the next one, I always thought a good representation was the "Recorded Live" album, because it was the band without the restrictions of the studio.
	www.classicrockrevisited.com /interviews03/leolyonsinterview.htm (2441 words)

	British Computer Society - Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lyons' pioneering thinking is also reflected in the fact that even in those early days of computing its focus was on its business need, not on technology.
		Lyons looked to magnetic tape for mass data storage, but it had to wait for Standard Telephones to come up with the product and for software to be written to handle reading and writing.
		A measure of Lyons' achievements as a computer user in the business world of the time is reflected in two findings from a visit to the USA by two of its senior managers.
	www.bcs.org /BCS/Templates/StandardWideTxt.aspx?TextOnlyMode=yes&NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=/BCS/Products/Publications/JournalsAndMagazines/ComputerBulletin/OnlineArchive/nov01/anniversary.htm?TextOnlyMode=yes&NRNODEGUID={EEC8D548-B77E-4AD0-BE0D-BB026BBE00E4}&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest (1248 words)

	Tribute to TEN YEARS AFTER
		Leo tells me in an Email that there is a whole concert of KICK he has but it hasn’t been mixed and may out it out in time.
		Leo knows that when he hits the states that if at all possible I am my friends and wife will be there.
		Lyons, who is from England, just happens to be one of the founding members of the rock band, Ten Years After (with Alvin Lee).
	www.ten-years-after.com /_private/leo.htm (5418 words)

	J. Lyons & Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lyons Patisserie Ltd production line at Hartlepool, where frozen cakes and gateaux were produced for the wholesale, catering and retail trades.
		In the process Lyons became a household name and the 'Joe Lyons' Corner Houses and teashops, with their 'Nippy' waitresses, caught the public imagination and passed into history.
		Lyons undertook the Buckingham Palace Garden Parties, the catering events at Windsor Castle, London's Guildhall where the Lord Mayor's banquets were held, the Chelsea Flower shows, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships and many more.
	www.kzwp.com /lyons (880 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		Leo Lyons always insisted that Rochester, N.Y., could have been "another Green Bay." The manager of the Rochester Jeffersons during their sad six-year stay in the National Football League (1920-25) believed all his life that his hometown could have duplicated Green Bay's feat of playing successful David to the NFL's metropolitan Goliaths.
		But to Lyons, the thought was a revelation, one that he would believe in and work toward all the rest of his life.
		Lyons was one of the old guard who could explained what happened when the league was just beginning.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=rochster (2059 words)

	Learn more about LEO I in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The clock speed was 500 kHz, with most instructions taking about 1500 ms to execute, constrained by its paper tape I/O. Its ultrasonic delay line memory, based on tanks of mercury, was four times as large as EDSACs, with 1024 35-bit words.
		Lyons used LEO I initially for valuation jobs, but its role was extended to include payroll, inventory, and so on; it was the first computer used for commercial business calculations.
		In 1954, with the decision to proceed with LEO II and interest from other commercial companies, Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd. That company later went on to become part of ICT, eventually becoming ICL.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/le/leo_i.html (226 words)

	LEO Computers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		LEO was developed with assistance from Cambridge University and used techniques developed from the early scientific computer systems and the code-breaking computer at Bletchley Park.
		The LEO III models were introduced around 1961 and were very long lived, the last two models being decommissioned in Bristol and Cardiff in 1981.
		LEO was beautifully made and all those engineers who worked on LEO were very proud to have been connected with the machine.
	classicbristolbuses.thornet.co.uk /NF/leo.html (434 words)

	J. Lyons & Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among all the technological achievements developed by J. Lyons Co. in their quest for efficiency, the development of their LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) computer in the early 1950s must rank as one of the most innovative.
		On their return they produced a report for the Lyons board which basically said that electronic computers hold the key to office efficiency and for £100,000 Lyons could build one themselves which would show a saving in office expenditure of £50,000 per year.
		Meanwhile Lyons advertised for an electronic engineer in the scientific journal Nature and it was answered by John Pinkerton.
	www.kzwp.com /lyons/leo.htm (1132 words)

	LEO LYONS BIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943, Leo became a professional musician at the age of 16 and as a founder member of the band
		Leo estimates that the band performed to in excess of 75,000 new fans a week.
		Leo's interests outside music include the paranormal, alternative medicine, martial arts and all new technology.
	www.leolyons.org /bio.htm (891 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Leo: The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lyons and Co. operated in constant innovation, leaping into business history right after the war with the vision that the growing mountain of paperwork could be tamed by machine--if they only had the courage to build it.
		Part 4 documents the export efforts of LEO computers and later English Electric to gain a foothold in South Africa and the Iron Curtain and ends with an evaluation of the approach behind LEO by John Aris.
		This was partly because LEO could not compete head to head in terms of technology but largely reflected the history of Lyons own innovative approach to business processes.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0070095019 (2285 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Electronic Brains
		The first programme starts in the Piccadilly café which is still identifiable as the first Lyons Teashop ever opened, at the end of the 19th Century.
		LEO veterans explain how the company that believed it could do anything decided to build a business computer, and did so with considerable success.
		It was so successful that Lyons did jobs for other companies and the government, like working out the new tax tables on the night of the Chancellor's Budget.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml (1142 words)

	Leo Lyons - Ten Years After's Freight Train, by Guy Lee
		Leo Lyons, one of the founding members of Ten Years After is residing in Nashville these days being a songwriter and a recording engineer all while still smokin' on the bass.
		One thing about Leo is that he plays with the same fire in or out of the studio.
		But what is also magic about this performance is how Leo plays the spaces and knows when to drop out, and when he comes back in the dynamics hit the ceiling.
	www.classicrockpage.com /newslet/newsgrap/june01/leolyons.htm (1363 words)

	Free Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leo Lyons, Ric Lee and Vince Converse have emerged from Quad Studios in Nashville, TN after a full and frank exchange of views over a two-week period with their debut release, titled The Show, complete.
		Produced by Kirk Yano and Leo Lyons, the torrid three-piece laid down 14 tracks for The Show plus a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Jesse James" for the upcoming Blue Storm Music tribute to John Lee.
		For bass player Leo Lyons, the buzz of not only being in the studio but also recording material that will be taken out on the road and played live is intoxicating.
	www.bluestormmusic.com /newslettervol1-8.html (519 words)

	Engineers will gather to take pride in Lyons' Leo - vnunet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is 50 years since work started on Leo, the UK's first commercial electronic computer, designed and built in England by the J Lyons catering company.
		Lyons then spun off the business as LEO Computers in 1954, selling machines in countries such as South Africa and Czechoslovakia before a round of mergers saw it become part of ICL in the 1960s.
		Several Computing readers have pointed out that Leo's birth is a key event in IT industry history.
	www.vnunet.com /computing/news/2066640/engineers-gather-pride-lyons-leo (446 words)

	About Our Founders - Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
		An astute businesswoman, she had developed the admiration and respect of local bankers and brokers for her shrewd investment skills but was little known in the community at-large.
		Leo Marquis Lyons was born November 17, 1904 in Amsterdam, New York, the only child of Jacob and Phoebe Lyons.
		Leo served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation from 1968 until his death in 1997, leaving the bulk of his estate to the Foundation as well.
	www.dmjf.org /aboutfounders.asp (363 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: L.E.O.: Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those who worked in LEO, especially in its earlier days, including many of the book's authors, exercised an influence on the development of business computing in the UK quite disproportionate to their numbers.
		It is a flesh and blood, warts and all story related by the participants, brimming over with the same enthusiasm that enabled the unlikeliest of organisations to lead the way into the future that we are all familiar with today.
		The achievements made by Lyons and LEO are very impressive.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0070095019 (2209 words)

	LLC Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bassist Leo Lyons and drummer Ric Lee, the legendary rhythm section from Ten Years After, claimed their place in rock history in 1969 with a searing ten-minute version of "I'm Goin' Home" which was captured on film at Woodstock.
		Earlier this year, Leo, Ric and Vince came together to lay down what Leo called "indications of interest." The name, LLC, stands for Lyons, Lee and Converse, and seasoned music pros that they are, Limited Liability Corporation.
		LLC is built on the foundation of one of the best rhythm sections in rock history and fronted by a young musician that creates excitement whenever he plays his guitar.
	www.bluestormmusic.com /llcbio.html (321 words)

	ALVIN LEE Website
		After a tedious flight from London where, having boarded the Lufthansa jet, all the passengers then had to get off and be searched because of a bomb scare, I was more than pleased to be met at the airport by two models who drove me to the hotel.
		On the way back through the near-deserted streets to the hotel, Leo told me: "We had to go on down there, even if it was only to go on and talk to them to let them know we were there.
		Ten Years After’s next album is just out called “Rock and Roll Music to the World.” It is their first in almost a year and some tracks are from their experimenting in the South of France with the Rolling Stones mobile unit in February.
	www.alvinlee.de /alvmems6.htm (2442 words)

	Amazon.com: L.E.O.: The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer: Books: John Aris,Peter Hermon,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lyons first went "online" in 1951 with product-valuation jobs that ran on the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO), which the company developed and built in-house.
		LEO, the book, consists of firsthand accounts from many of the people involved with the LEO project during its 20-year span.
		The memories of those involved in LEO's development are as vivid and compelling as the startup sagas familiar to members of the American computer industry.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0070095019?v=glance (2423 words)

	LEO LYONS BIOGRAPHY
		Born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in November 1943, Leo became a professional musician at the age of 16 and as a founding member of the band Ten Year After has been an on-stage eyewitness to some of the most pivotal moments in Rock and Roll history.
		Leo worked as a session musician, toured as a sideman with pop acts of the day, appeared in a play in London’s West End and played a
		He is a vegetarian, married with two grown up sons and currently resides in Nashville where he is active as a songwriter, musician and record producer/engineer.
	www.texaspopfestival.com /artists/leo_lyons_biography.htm (754 words)

	A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This book has several delights: the description of mercury delay lines shows how difficult it was to implement memory in the pre-semiconductor age and the continuous Swiss Roll bakery is a hard image to forget.
		The notion of a computer is introduced early on, as well as the peculiar requirements of the massive Lyons empire that led to the introduction of the LEO.
		When I joined the computer industry in 1965, a friend in IBM confided in me that the Leo (Lyons Electronic Office) series of computers (already in there last days) were IBM's most serious rival in commercial computing.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/1841151858 (642 words)

	About LEO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On November 17th 1951, the J. Lyons company began weekly operation of a bakery valuations job on a computer called LEO (Lyons Electronic Office).
		But LEO's staff never forgot that the technology was merely a means to an end, and that the primary objective was to improve business efficiency.
		They have obtained machine readable software for Leo III, and are looking for volunteers to work on producing an emulator that will bring the Leo III back to life.
	is.lse.ac.uk /leo/About_LEO.htm (377 words)

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