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Review: ‘Electronic Dreams’ by Tom Lean
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Article by J. Margolis, (2018) reviewing Tom Lean's book.
"Another remarkable fact from Electronic Dreams: which UK company would you imagine was, by 1951, the world’s first to use a computer for business, and started making computers for other companies? It was J. Lyons and Co, the teashop chain. Its computer business, LEO, kept going until 1963. Lyons’ role as a computer manufacturing pioneer is the more astonishing — at least to anyone old enough to remember the ostensibly low-tech J. Lyons cafés — in that there was stiff competition from within the UK; companies such as Ferranti, Elliott Brothers, English Electric and British Tabulating Machinery were all selling British boffin-made computers globally.”
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Date : 2018This exhibit has a reference ID of CH54479. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. |
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