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Ron Kirby

Ron Kirby

After leaving the RAF in late 1962/early 1963 Ron Kirby joined LEO at Cadby Hall working on LEO II/I.

Following a relatively long career in various companies related to the computer industry Ron retired and by various routes got involved in local history as part of which gave talks to local clubs and societies. He belonged to a Probus club and a few years ago when asked to talk about an interesting part of his career chose to talk about the first computer to run a commercial application and later turned that into a talk about the rise and fall of J. Lyons and how the British Computer Industry also rose and fell and including the story of 'A Computer Called LEO'.