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74000 Precis of "LEO: The Incredible Story of the World's First Business Computer" by McGraw Hill

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Titled "Embargoed until 5 November 2001" and "Why Britain lost out in computers: Caminer points the finger". Discusses David Caminer's experience with J. Lyons & Co's LEO project, and the 1963 merger of LEO Computers with English Electric and ICT.

Date : Undated

Physical Description : 1 item (3 pages), paper; typescript

Provenance :
Collected by John Daines

Archive References : CMLEO/JD/COR/74000 , JDA5.8

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH74000. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

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