Wednesday, November 30, 2011
After 60 years: How a chain of tea shops kickstarted the computer age
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A gathering at the Science Museum tomorrow will celebrate the 60th birthday of LEO, the world’s first business computer, which crunched its first numbers on November 17, 1951. Today computing breakthroughs are made by highly-specialised technology firms, but LEO was created by J Lyons and Co, operator of tea shops, manufacturer of biscuits and founder of the Wimpy burger chain.
The British businessmen, along with the rest of the world, were unaware that their countrymen had invented the world’s first programmable computer in 1943 to crack German codes at Bletchley Park.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Apple has been started in garage, right? 25 years later. Not an April fools, on a April the 1st.
A gathering at the Science Museum tomorrow will celebrate the 60th birthday of LEO, the world’s first business computer, which crunched its first numbers on November 17, 1951. Today computing breakthroughs are made by highly-specialised technology firms, but LEO was created by J Lyons and Co, operator of tea shops, manufacturer of biscuits and founder of the Wimpy burger chain.
The British businessmen, along with the rest of the world, were unaware that their countrymen had invented the world’s first programmable computer in 1943 to crack German codes at Bletchley Park.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Apple has been started in garage, right? 25 years later. Not an April fools, on a April the 1st.
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