By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 05 September 2008
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Richard Sarson
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Wimbledon
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Sorry, the Joe Lyons LEO ran its first business program in November 1951, predating Elliott by about ten years. The LEO guys called LEO the World's first business computer.
LEO was a version of the Cambridge University EDSAC, specially adapted with paper-tape input for business use.
I would describe the Elliott machine as the first "Mini", and was, I seem to remember, mostly used for technical and manufacturing applications. Super machine, like most of the early British computers.
I remeber seeing one of these in operation in the ...
R. Mark Clayton
What a blast from the past !
I can recall "pl...
Rog
Sorry, the Joe Lyons LEO ran its first business pr...
Richard Sarson
I programmed these in 1962. The basic memory was n...
Brian Boutel
Not sure this is the oldest business computer. I u...
steve brandom
I too started my programming career on one of thes...
Ian Beaty
My grandfather worked on the development of this a...
Anonymous
This year was the fiftieth anniversary of Unilever...
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